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Sometimes, if you close your eyes and keep still, you can be invisible. Ostriches know this." - Constantine — Jamie Delano

I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done. — Sarah Dessen

One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S. — Andrew Gross

Fall into the cavern of my mind, and together there, we will dine. — Brad Jensen

Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers. — Luke Taylor

After all it was for one justice which is short..., but the journey up to this justice was very long.
(Red 2008 Film) — Deyth Banger

Good travel books are novels at heart. — Jonathan Raban

My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization. — Harper Lee

Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book. — Italo Calvino

Clearly she knew that between book lovers, a novel is not a novel is not a novel. It's a symbol, an offering
and sometimes a test — Sara Nelson

A Memory Is Better Than A Phony! — Latif Mercado

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me. — Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Love is the connection between souls synchronized through heart beats.
Quote from my upcoming book 'Always Be MINE — Neha Daraad

Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it. — Sherry Thomas

Isn't breaking a supervillian out of jail a little ... much? — Kirstin Van Dyke

The Airwitch had gone from reading nothing in his life to never stopping, buying every novel or history book he could get his hands on. — Susan Dennard

Do not judge a book by its price! — Claire Hamelin Manning

They did it quite a lot after that first encounter" ... when Jill remembers first meeting the dashing Baron. — Lisa McKnight

Just because something isn't good doesn't mean it's bad. — Rebecca McNutt

When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book. — Anna Quindlen

For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems. — Kate DiCamillo

Someone has to warn you."
"That's novel. A stalker warning his victim. — Anna Durand

Let me in, Emily, and I swear to you that you'll never regret it.
Ethan Sterling in Private Emotions — Elize Amornette

Focus. She's Maddie. Your friend. Would you eyeball Keith or Dane's butt like that? ~ Zach — Monique DeVere

Death is the Inevitable Price We Must Pay. — Ellen J. Barrier

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. — Ray Bradbury

Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot. — Dennis R. Miller

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes. — Aleksandar Hemon

Describing colors to a blind is what writing is all about. — Viraj J. Mahajan

Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her. — Jane Gardam

- Why would the man who never takes vacations suddenly have a desire for one?

- Because I have a desire for you. — Barbara White Daille

I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a novel. — Bill Mumy

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

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel. — Jon Weisman

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving. — Lev Grossman

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. — Dorothy Parker

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead. — Ian McEwan

It is too bad that most Olympians do not train as hard as the Lashkar jihadis whose main aim in life is to kill people. — Vivek Pereira

A novel is a book with a lot of pages. — Kathy Acker

It's getting a little chilly in here! Why don't we sit by the fireplace and I'll tell you the story of how I single handedly killed the Medina boys! — Angel Ramon Medina

I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings. — Taiye Selasi

A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot ... — Don DeLillo

You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium. — Adrian Tomine

My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry. — Kate Thompson

Please read this [book] so I'll have someone to talk about it with? I'll get you cigarettes. — Fiona Staples

And then he was gone. Leaving nothing but the swish of the front door, and a mountain of possibilities in his wake. — Stacie Hammond

Goodbyes are not forever. They are always partnered with see you again. — Mathilda Maldita

A writer is a person who writes.

Actually, it was John Braine's quote in his book HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL. But I use it all the time — Andrew Puckett

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again. — Sarah Dessen

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer. — Umberto Eco

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

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

I'd much prefer my books to shoes ... In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel. — Nathan Englander

We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

A book is either autobiography or a novel. — Imre Kertesz

My Name Is Latif Mercado, And I Am... A Workaholic! — Latif Mercado

I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life. — Louis Sachar

People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them. — Henry Mosquera

To standing in the bow wind with no charted course."
Clay Mitchell, "Half-Past Eternity" book II "Eterna". — Clay Mitchell

Books are an extension of our imagination — Danny Saunders

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke. — Ned Vizzini

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin. — Steven Spielberg

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers. — Hilary Mantel

My life is an open book looking for chapters of love to fill my lonely pages.
-Michelle Carithers
read more A Daughter's Worth-A Novel — Michelle Carithers

Our original idea was to write a book titled Fifty Shades of the Hunger Games, by J.K. Rowling with Stephen King: A John Grisham Novel. — Dave Barry

Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I don't think I was strong in life. Now it seems like I loved every moment, that
every breath was charmed and crisp. — Kendare Blake

That's the exciting part about capitalism. It's like surfing, you have to catch the wave. - Martin Peter (aka Vermin Gobsmack) — Jamie Delano

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels. — Evelyn Waugh

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

I firmly believe that if you can't fool all of the people all of the time you should start breeding them for stupidity. - Weisshaupt — Dave Sim

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

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

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

Sometime rhetoric was just
another way to lie and impress persons,
and he knew this — Haidji

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

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

Read my book and you shall know thee — Oscar Sanders

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas. — Louise Brown

To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can't really multitask reading a book. — Jonathan Franzen

The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do. — Elizabeth Scott

So? I know lots of beautiful women. Nova wanted to chase ... I merely obliged her by running. — D.D. Chant

I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting. — Damon Galgut

I Don't Waste My Time Doing Crosswords, As My Life Is The Only Puzzle I Care To Resolve! — Latif Mercado

'Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that moment on. — Jim Rash

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition. — Elie Wiesel

She was not the still quiet type. Aphrodites never are. — Lenora Henson

Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option! — Lillian R. Melendez

Just do it. Now. — M. Yeats

He lived like a devil and died like a saint — Haidji

She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you. — Sarah Waters

But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It's not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book. It is the book of America. — Robert Stone

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. — Marilyn Hacker

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

I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images. — Rachel Kushner

The last time I was this confused I was watching a Fassbinder film. — Ken O'Neill

You don't get one chance at life but many over one lifetime. — Elize Amornette

Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don't fall. — Henry Mosquera

People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to. — Gayle Forman