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I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.
— Scarlett Thomas
I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
— James Salter
Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.
— Lauren F. Winner
Great. My life has suddenly become a young-adult novel.
— R.J. Gonzales
My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.
— Anne Waldman
My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
— Edward Abbey
Every great novel begins with a single word. One word, followed by another and another and another. Sentences forming paths to that dream.
— Pamela Morris
Every page of a great novel should be crafted like a beautiful melody, to linger on long after the music stops playing.
— Johnny Flora
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.
— Virginia Woolf
One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel
— John Gardner
Schopenhauer wrote that to desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake. He was correct.
— Michael LaRocca
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
— Dorothy Parker
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
— Khaled Hosseini
Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.
— Michael Holroyd
I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers.
— Dorothy Garlock
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.
— Diane Johnson
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children
— L. Frank Baum
Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.
— Harlan Ellison
A great book increases my heartbeat as if I'm prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths.
— Carmen DeSousa
Florida is a great place to set a novel.
— John Lutz
It's a great euphoria when you reach that writing zone.
— Paul T. Scheuring
Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
It's a pity that the land of great leaders like Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and Akbar, has to be led by a dummy PM. - Shruti Ranjan
— Tuhin A. Sinha
I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.
— Tony D'Souza
A great novel is worth one thousand films.
— Oscar Hijuelos
To be a great writer you must be fearless with your words.
— Karmel Graham
A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.
— Julien Green
Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' and it's sad, gay nostalgia.
— Truman Capote
Dead. Supposedly Suicide. That's how they'll kill Michael too. Make it look like a suicide or an accident of some sort.
— H.C. Deboard
The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.
— Michel Houellebecq
It doesn't take five novels to become a great writer ... it takes one novel rewritten five different times.
— B. Chancellor Burgweger
