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Grayson Dashwood.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 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
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
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
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
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
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— Wataru Watari
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
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
Good Lord. His appearance was nearly a caricature of the dark and brooding hero from every gothic novel.
— Tarun Shanker
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
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
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
Judgments and secrets are what make a good novel.
— Tobias Hill
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
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
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
