Great Novel Quotes
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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
Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.
— Theodore Dreiser
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
The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .
— Italo Svevo
Adventure, the first great theme of the novel.
— Milan Kundera
There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.
— W. H. Auden
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
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.
— Antony Beevor
My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
— Edward Abbey
Human beings have their great chance in the novel.
— E. M. Forster
Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I've no regrets.
— Roman Payne
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
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The great epics sang of war, the novel of marriage.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
What great literature does best is to show us those moments which make life worth living.
— Marty Rubin
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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
Every page of a great novel should be crafted like a beautiful melody, to linger on long after the music stops playing.
— Johnny Flora
In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.
— D.H. Lawrence
One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel
— John Gardner
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
I've never felt I would write the great big novel. I've ey wanted to write the sma perfect!
— Jessie Kesson
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.
— Diane Johnson
Hating "The Great Gatsby" (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will be.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
— Eugenio Montale
Florida is a great place to set a novel.
— John Lutz
the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
— Aubrey F.G. Bell
It is one of the great blessings of youth, this guiltlessness, the source of gentle sleep and peaceful days.
— John Pipkin
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
— Winston Churchill
It's a great euphoria when you reach that writing zone.
— Paul T. Scheuring
I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.
— Tom T. Hall
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
If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.
— Shashi Tharoor
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
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
A great novel is worth one thousand films.
— Oscar Hijuelos
She feels "Brutal Dynasty" actually may become the Great American Novel she and her fellow critics have been looking for so long.
— Clyde Brion Davis
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