Quotes of: Novels Keyword

The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.

Edwin Muir

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

Gene Wolfe

'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing.

John Irving

Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.

Christopher Golden

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

William Gibson

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that at...

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Producing works of art doesn't often count as appropriate intellectual work in an arts department: yet the equivalent in a science department, doing physics or chemistry, does. So why is it that in universities writing about novels is thought to be a...

Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative

For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings are possible. Romance makes the promise that no matter how bleak things sometimes look, in the end everything w...

On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells

We are always sure that the heroine is fiery and passionate, which is quite an achievement when the plot has had to keep her passive, inactive and loveless for long stretches. Up to the point when Jane's love declares itself, the novel establishes th...

Reading The Victorian Novel: Detail Into Form

I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,' 9/11 felt to me like a piece of the plot; the novel wasn't wrestling with what 9/11 meant. And 'N...

Amy Waldman

Suddenly he knew all the things he should have said.

Flotsam: A Novel of World War II

He who whets his steel, whets his courage

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.

Butcher Bird: A Novel of The Dominion

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

Butcher Bird: A Novel of The Dominion

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.

The 90-Day Novel: Unlock the story within

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

How can she tell the difference between freedom and unburdening?

I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

History will remember this," she says. "I do not need to.

Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

When all dreams wane, same are loss and gain

Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes

I give people 'If You Came Softly' when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.

Justine Larbalestier

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

Tobias Wolff