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For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
— Paul Auster
Yes, it had been a perfect match, except for the fact that he had been perfectly in love with someone else.
— Sarah MacLean
In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.
— Will Hobbs
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
A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.
— Christy Leigh Stewart
In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.
— Don DeLillo
To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.
— Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Write a page a day and you'll have a complete novel in year.
— Harry Whittington
Every once in a while you come across a novel that reminds you why you think you enjoy reading in the first place.
— Graham Parke
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
I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.
— Stephen Collins
I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.
— Alex Berenson
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
I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.
— Jess Walter
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.
— Louis Sachar
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
When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.
— Molly Crabapple
Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
— Zane Grey
He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
— John Irving
Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
— Octavia E. Butler
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
I made the first cut razor thin. A gentle kiss on virgin skin.
— Madeleine Kuderick
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.
— Dennis Green
Dude, if you stare at me any longer you'll end up as a twisted character in my wife's next novel.
— Mantissa Etherbright
The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.
— Kate Zambreno
It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.
— David Antin
I'm guessing you're tits deep in a horror novel. Something by Laymon, or Ketchum, or one of those sick fucks you read.
— Kyle M. Scott
The pain was a river I rode; I could not plant my feet in it or it would knock me down
— Frances Greenslade
I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'
— Adrian McKinty
The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.
— Elizabeth George
The artist has the liberty to exaggerate, to create in his novel a world more beautiful, more simple, more consoling than ours.
— Irving Stone
Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before.
— Zadie Smith
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
We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.
— Kathryn Joyce
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
— Jane Austen
Jekyll and Hyde, in particular, is such an important novel in terms of suspense and setting a perfect scene for crime
— Alanna Knight
Apparently, he was too busy living his own life to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine.
— Melissa Kantor
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
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
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
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
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
— Alan Paton
How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
— Dodie Smith
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
— Charles Stross
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
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
My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.
— Wilbur Smith
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
— Daphne Du Maurier
The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word I write.
— Jamaica Kincaid
A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.
— Rick Bass
I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel
— Haruki Murakami
Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling.
— Tara Dobbs
To talk nonsense in one's own way is almost better than to talk a truth that's someone else's
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.
— Edwidge Danticat
I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
— Kate Christensen
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
