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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
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
I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels.
— Lee Daniels
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
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
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
but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels. — Bentley Little