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[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived. — Richard Peck

Yes, it had been a perfect match, except for the fact that he had been perfectly in love with someone else. — Sarah MacLean

When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it. — Thomas Harris

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are. — Aidan Chambers

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To A Life Filled with A Love Whose Voice Always Calls You Home — Viola Shipman

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. — Henry James

As the fireworks began to illuminate the sky above them, Blake and Veronica made love for the first time on Hideaway Hill. — Elle A. Rose

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind. — Kevin Henkes

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer. — Aleksandar Hemon

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. — Don DeLillo

I expect a report on his abs. Real details, not romance novel nonsense. — Katie McGarry

I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website. — Andy Weir

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

Night was swiftly approaching, but darkness would soon be a specter of the past — Luis Gonzalez

If it was possible for two people to make sparks, simply by connecting at their lips, I would think we would have been a firework display in the dark. — Kristen Hope Mazzola

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. — Manuel Puig

It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult. — Prue Leith

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life. — E. M. Forster

She could possibly hit the best-seller list if she sold it as a novel, though. — Shanna Swendson

I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven. — Stephen Collins

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there. — Anthony Trollope

Hmmm," he said. "Quite a novel idea, I must say. But hardly conducive to a bestselling, tell-all, no-holds-barred biography. — Alan Bradley

The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread. — Brian A. McBride

There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job. — Jesse Kellerman

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

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. — Alan Paton

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting. — Diane Von Furstenberg

I'm not a lawyer, but I play one in my novel COPYRIGHT. I also play a serial rapist, a drug addict, a teenage boy and lesbian model. — Lori Lesko

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey. — Kathryn Joyce

Jekyll and Hyde, in particular, is such an important novel in terms of suspense and setting a perfect scene for crime — Alanna Knight

A novel need not impart information or inform. It must seduce & snare the reader with feelings & break the reader's heart. — Mark Rubinstein

I love you as much as my heart is allowed to love. — A. Valentine Joseph

When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that I was thrown out of graduate school. — James Altucher

Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did. — Charles Bukowski

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction. — Salman Rushdie

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel. — Ted Rall

Then she loved him as she would a manifestation of herself, both silenced and wounded in existence, both everything and nothing to eternity. — E.J. Koh

As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state. — William Golding

A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other. — Katherine Anne Porter

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity. — Mohsin Hamid

Don't try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. — Ray Bradbury

(A novel is) a paper where your thesis is that these people are real, and you have to prove it. — Maggie Stiefvater

Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live. — Lucy Ellmann

I wondered if a novel could have the power to make something so strange happen in actuality. — Elizabeth Kostova

Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. — Peter De Vries

Own company, reading a classic British novel, curled — E.L. James

I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal. — Sue Miller

What draws the reader to the novel is the hope of warming his shivering life with a death he reads about — Walter Benjamin

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one. — Charles McCarry

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing. — Daniel Craig

When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends. — Tayari Jones

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages. — Ruskin Bond

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings. — Mary Stewart

The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone. — Lisa Unger

Life isn't a pulp novel, Joe, and death isn't either. — Lavie Tidhar

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. — Pat Conroy

I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell. — Scott Turow

When we reach the point when our lives take on their final shape as in a novel we can identify our happiest moment selecting it in retrospective — Orhan Pamuk

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

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it. — Thomas Harris

I am also an author. Please check out my novel, A Life Worth Dreaming About. — Nicholas Dettmann

Though a modern woman's computer is more intimate than her bed ... — Elizaveta Mikhailichenko

Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie. — Rick DeStefanis

No man goes out upon a novel expedition without misgivings.

The Secret Places of The Heart (Kindle Loc 245) — H.G.Wells

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. — Donna Tartt

Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience. — Angelika Rust

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory. — Dan Chaon

In this life, all is Evanescent. Live for the now — Carlyle Labuschagne

To write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale. — Virginia Woolf

Moonrise is a fabulous novel and my damn wife wrote it and that's me up there near Highlands shouting it out to the hills. — Pat Conroy

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it. — Piers Anthony

The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but one weedy species. — Elizabeth Kolbert

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench. — Wilbur Smith

It doesn't take five novels to become a great writer ... it takes one novel rewritten five different times. — B. Chancellor Burgweger

'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer. — Rachel Kushner

A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief. — Dave Morris

Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism. — A.E. Samaan

John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?' — Tom Robbins

I just want you, to be mine, forever. I want a piece of you no one else has ever had, and I want you to own my heart forever. — Ashley Beale

Your heart is yours to give, it is no ones to take. Not a queen. Not a prince. No one. — Stormy Smith

Apparently, he was too busy living his own life to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine. — Melissa Kantor

The difference between fanfic and a "real" novel is that fanfic is honest about its inspiration. — Mary Robinette Kowal

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

After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber. — Brian Azzarello

The couples that did the novel and exciting activities showed a significantly greater increase in relationship quality. — Aziz Ansari

Zembla is a site devoted to the life and works of author, translator, and lepidopterist. — Vladimir Nabokov

You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen. — Jerry Pournelle

It's said that we can all choose our own destiny. But sometimes, for a special few, destiny has no choice but to choose for you. — Steve M. Robinson Jr.

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

He wrote a novel, The Moon Is Down, for a precursor to the CIA, — John Steinbeck

I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's a nice change of pace each time. — John Boyne

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit. — Harlan Ellison

My illusion, the idea of a soul mate, was so entrenched in my fantasy that the thought of letting him go, wrecked me. — M.R. Field

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel! — Dodie Smith

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.' — Douglas Adams

Reading is a bridge from misery to hope. — Rebecca VanDeMark

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. — Howard Gordon

One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning. — Barbara Pym

When I'm working on a novel, I generally do write every day, but in between those marathons, I take breaks. My brain needs time to recharge. — Marie Brennan