Quotes of: Novels Keyword

A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all ...

Deborah Moggach

A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the...

Azar Nafisi

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

Aspects of the Novel

Passion was the antithesis of morality.

I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

Megan Abbott

'The Dovekeepers' is a fantastic novel written by Alice Hoffman; it was a bestselling novel, and I fell in love with the book and bought the rights to it.

Roma Downey

Lawrence's claims for the vital self and his inability to make it convincing independently of Freudian psychology are serious flaws in the novel, explain the sense in which the author's vision exceeds his grasp, and bring the cleavage between intenti...

The Novels of D. H. Lawrence: A Search for Integration

I'm always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the nov...

Kazuo Ishiguro

I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading and enjoying romance novels at the time, the first two unpublished manuscripts I wrote were both romances. I sold my third novel, 'Call...

Tess Gerritsen

The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor.

The Art of the Novel

The eye always fills in the imperfections.

I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.

Nicholas Sparks

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

Louise Penny

He was more aware than is usually admitted of the Freudian implications in the novel, and the note of ambiguity could have insinuated itself at least as a partial effort to conceal the radical thesis and the problem of form. Since this is exactly wha...

The Novels of D. H. Lawrence: A Search for Integration

Because it is written by a nineteenth-century American, and because of its closeness to the twentieth century, The Portrait of a Lady foregoes Victorian affirmations. The price it pays, however (together with several twentieth-century novels) is that...

Reading The Victorian Novel: Detail Into Form

If fucking up is power, I should be the Hulk by now.

Butcher Bird: A Novel of The Dominion

Love should not be polluted with friendship.

Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.

The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland

If dreams were wine, you'd be a sot.

The Water Mage's Daughter: A Novel of Love, Magic and War in Verse

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

Khaled Hosseini

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

Rainbow Rowell