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The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou. — Taiye Selasi

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard? — Jane Austen

My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.
(from "Wherein We Enter the Museum") — Kit Reed

The flashbacks to Scout's childhood, persuaded me to write a novel from the point of view of the young Scout. — Anonymous

The last thing I want to hear from a crotch, I yell, is Walt Whitman! — Ron Whipple

A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They're all parts of yourself. — Janet Fitch

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside. — Mordecai Richler

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

I love you more than depth of the ocean, but I can't let you feel the pain of it ...
lines from Love Vs destiny ... — Atul Purohit

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

Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her enjoyment. — Lisa Kleypas

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

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

You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven. — Martin Amis

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life. — E. M. Forster

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

Martin: Yes, I'd like to go home and do some work. I'm writing a novel about women from the women's point of view. — Caryl Churchill

My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel ... — John Hurt

The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps. — David Shields

Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment. — Rick Moody

Jayne Anne Phillips ... is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite ... This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers. — Robert Olen Butler

From Matheran I mailed the notes of my failed novel. I mailed them to fictitious address. — Yann Martel

I felt clueless and nervous--pretty much the same way I'd been feeling ever since I came back from Italy. — Maria Grazia Swan

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant. — Iain Banks

I knew from my television work that I could sit down and put words on paper but didn't know if I had the talent to tell a story in novel form. — Simon Toyne

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art. — Leslie Fiedler

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel. — David Macaulay

Every happy moments looks perfect till it gets messy — Sheeja Jose

It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4. — Ruth Ozeki

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

I was able to bring the souls from the past back to life.-Amaranth — Carolina Cody Aldaz

I think I knew from the first moment I met her, she would be the one to replace me. I didn't think it would happen that fast, but it did. — Megan Duke

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel. — Marlene Van Niekerk

'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing. — John Irving

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time. — Anais Nin

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote. — David Berlinski

No matter how many miles I move away, my love will always remain within the boundary of your heart
Lines from Love Vs Destiny ... — Atul Purohit

Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find. — Jonathan Franzen

When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance. — Oscar Hijuelos

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration. — Barbara Kingsolver

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

History is an ongoing novel, but if we don't learn from what we read and see we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history. — Tony Brooks

'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material. — Luke Rhinehart

The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books. — Gail Z. Martin

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. — Eugenio Montale

To derive pleasure from a novel is to enjoy the act of departing from words and transforming these things into images in our mind. — Orhan Pamuk

Misunderstanding and distrust - the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning. — Carmen DeSousa

How the Hell is it we go to pick up Jenna Jameson and end up with the fucking chick from those Kill Bill movies? — Todd Morr

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

The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from. — Val McDermid

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life. — Angus Wilson

I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.' — Joseph Heller

I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants. — E. M. Forster

Good Lord. His appearance was nearly a caricature of the dark and brooding hero from every gothic novel. — Tarun Shanker

To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die. — Salman Rushdie

I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least in a fleeting way, I got all those things. — Mark O'Donnell

Sqwaak!" from Fletcher, the environmental crime fighting parrot in The Big Belch graphic novel by Kay Wood. — Kay Wood

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

'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 past midnight. From the carpark of the apartment blocks, a human figure with an unsteady gait emerged. — Lim Thean Soo

Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving. — Shannon L. Alder

Men will continue to suffer from their own connivance, until they recognise and act upon the truth within themselves. — Georgina Zuvela

Believe me, when I say;
There are no two powers
That command the soul.
One is God
The other is the tide.
-Anon
From the novel Abarat — Clive Barker

The Fourth Crown Princess of the blue Cresent Islands had sixteen rituals to observe from the moment of waking to when she broke her fast. — Julia Golding

Be the person you really are and not the person you'e allowed yourself to become, Kate said to Nikki.
From 'Life Song — Christine M. Knight

The word "can't" should be erased from the dictionary. It is an excuse for I don't want to even try. — J.M. Brown

The creative process is beautiful and magical thing. Whether its a song, a radio story, or a novel, it all springs from the same place in the heart. — Greg Kihn

Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece ... This is a spellbinding, powerful novel. — Jill McCorkle