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Those two words had just ruined what was turning into a good morning. — Elaine White

A good novel can be a doorstop to despair. — Colum McCann

Ideas can come while reading a good novel. — Ben Van Berkel

May the next man in McKenna's life be one of those heroes in a romance novel - rich, good-looking and perfect in every way. — Lauren Blakely

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one. — Paula Fox

A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance. — Phyllis McGinley

No man that good-looking could be a bachelor. Life wasn't that kind. — Gaelen Foley

As the sweaty, alcohol fuming bodies press in on me from all directions I decide that my ideal of a good time is reading a good novel, alone — Rita Stradling

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. ( ... )
A good novel editor is invisible. — Terri Windling

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself. — Richard Ford

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing ... It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing. — George Bernard Shaw

I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath. — Larry McMurtry

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets. — Julianna Baggott

There is not a lost piece of yourself that can't be found in a good novel. — Kimberly Jo Smith

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting. — Jakucho Setouchi

She could not see what good it would do anyone to read a novel of this kind. Yet she was writing it. — Doris Lessing

A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never. — Elizabeth Gilbert

A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

I've seen enough cowboys in my life to know I don't want one for a husband."
...Victoria
"Every good man I know is a cowboy." — Scarlett Dunn

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. — Edith Wharton

It's good to go off and write a novel, but don't stop doing writing practice. — Natalie Goldberg

A guava tree in bloom, for instance, lost in the pages of a good novel, can bring delight with its fictional perfume to any number of real rooms. — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

You need a good James Clavell novel, I think, to make a good miniseries. — Noah Hawley

I love print fiction, but sometimes when I'm reading a good graphic novel or manga, I find myself envying those who work in an illustrated format. — Jane Lindskold

A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them. — Darcey Steinke

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically. — A.S. Byatt

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality. — Alberto Moravia

Every good story needs a good ending. Don't write the beginning of a novel without knowing the end of it. — A.D.Y. Howle

I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once. — Noah Baumbach

A good romance novel is like a bubble bath...steamy, relaxing, and over way too soon. — Donna Marie Rogers

It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch. — Diana Gabaldon

Time, effort & persistence make for the writing of a good novel. There's no such thing as "writer's block." Just reluctance to make the slog — Mark Rubinstein

Hayato Hayama [. . .] Basically, he was good-looking and stylish in a casual way. Fuck that guy. — Wataru Watari

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. — Tom Helm

A good approach is to allow one dream per novel. Then, in the final revision, go back and get rid of that, too. — Howard Mittelmark

There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract. — George R R Martin

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. — Norman Mailer

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel. — Ted Rall

It's got a lot more room for nuance and an assumption that people have started from the beginning. 'Bloodline' ends up being like a really good novel. — Ben Mendelsohn

A good novel editor is invisible. — Terri Windling

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life. — Barbara Kingsolver

The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision. — John Gaddis

The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to. — Liane Moriarty

The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing. — William Gibson

A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way. — Neil Gaiman

Good Lord. His appearance was nearly a caricature of the dark and brooding hero from every gothic novel. — Tarun Shanker

You didn't loses something that means everything to you, you didn't take good care of it so it went a away — Ayah

A good novel cannot be too long nor a bad novel too short. — Ellen Glasgow

I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.' — Joseph Heller

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair — Stephen King

Sometimes a girl's gotta be bad to be good.

Murder in the Dog Park — Jill Yesko

The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a good novel. — Kathleen Rooney

I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing. — Mac Barnett

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. — G.K. Chesterton

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel. — James C. Humes

When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose. — Ted Dekker

Judgments and secrets are what make a good novel. — Tobias Hill

Don't be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing; the idea of
writing a novel in a month deserves to be laughed at. — Chris Baty

Is it possible to write a reverent novel," said Nassrin, "and to have it be good? ... — Azar Nafisi

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. — Lord Chesterfield

Never once did I think you were less than a good person. — Veronica Purcell

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study. — Saul Bellow

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader. — W.J. Raymond

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people. — Salman Rushdie

A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good. — Rick Bass

A good novel takes the reader into the heart of another person. It lands you smack into the life and times of someone else. — Mark Rubinstein

Edward was good at finding Emil's most vulnerable places. Some people are like that. Siblings maybe most of all — Frances Greenslade

Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel. — Jourdan Dunn

Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message. — Jerry B. Jenkins

I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success. — Richard North Patterson

Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an 'off' day. Trust me, good things will come of it. — Michelle M. Pillow

Good humour was miles behind a second cup of morning tea. It was too early for nonsense. — Zeenat Mahal

I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people. — Guy Gavriel Kay

I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Marxist has never written a good novel. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food. — Hallie Ephron

Nothing good in this world comes free! For everything there's a payment of time or money or soul! — Kellyn Roth

In a weird way it was just too good to put down. It was like a novel so disgusting you just have to finish it. — Stephen King