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I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world. — Don DeLillo

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. — Milan Kundera

They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women. — John O'Hara

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now. — Lisa Gardner

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them. — W. H. Auden

I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels. — Paul Auster

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea. — Jacqueline Leo

Great novels are above all great fairy tales ... literature does not tell the truth but makes it up. — Vladimir Nabokov

All great novels are great fairy tales. — Vladimir Nabokov

Lying for lying's sake is the inspiration behind all great fiction. — Marty Rubin

The great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time. — Ellen Glasgow

I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels. — Lee Daniels

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused. — Darren Aronofsky

These two "speech communities," as it were, are Hurston's great sources of inspiration not only in her novels but also in her autobiography. — Zora Neale Hurston

The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too. — Nicholas Sparks

All the great novels are about obsession and people who are obsessed. — Marty Rubin

The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them. — Claudia Bakker

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. — Milan Kundera

An artist doesn't really need a great deal of experience. One heartbreak can produce many novels. But you have to have a heart that can break. — Brian Morton

Exactly. Chekhov was a great writer, but not all novels have to follow his rules. Not all guns in stories have to be fired, Tamaru said. — Haruki Murakami

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. — Mignon McLaughlin

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that. — Thomas Lennon

I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true. — Dean Koontz

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. — Neil Gaiman

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites. — Piers Paul Read

By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds. — Lurlene McDaniel

It takes a truly great man to see that he's been wrong and to apologize for it, even in the face of the obvious. — Amy Lane

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them. — Ellen J. Barrier

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie. — Henry James

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned. — Carlos Fuentes

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely. — David McCullough

Chekhov was a great writer, but not all novels have to follow his rules. Not all guns in stories have to be fired, Tamaru — Haruki Murakami

I think the internet is a great marketing tool
but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels. — Bentley Little

We never looked quite right on paper, but that's what made us so great. We were exactly what we wanted to be ... and that was happy. — Hope Alcocer

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