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I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways. — Kiese Laymon

In books and movies, the stories always end when the two people finally have their romantic kiss. The happily-ever-after part is just assumed — Gayle Forman

Sorry, I think I'll pass. You're not my type."
"I'm everybody's type, he says. You just have to realize it. — J.C. Reed

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel. — Jarvis Cocker

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind. — Kevin Henkes

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer. — Aleksandar Hemon

I expect a report on his abs. Real details, not romance novel nonsense. — Katie McGarry

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel. — Kenzaburo Oe

I've always said women are vicious creatures - Detective Zach Grimes — Lauren Bradshaw

I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website. — Andy Weir

What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in — Jonathan Franzen

I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath. — Larry McMurtry

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

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation. — Karan Bajaj

If it was possible for two people to make sparks, simply by connecting at their lips, I would think we would have been a firework display in the dark. — Kristen Hope Mazzola

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away. — Amy Tan

I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven. — Stephen Collins

I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel. — Alex Berenson

My novel is the rock to which I cling and I know nothing of what is taking place in the world. — Gustave Flaubert

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

I've seen enough cowboys in my life to know I don't want one for a husband."
...Victoria
"Every good man I know is a cowboy." — Scarlett Dunn

Hmmm," he said. "Quite a novel idea, I must say. But hardly conducive to a bestselling, tell-all, no-holds-barred biography. — Alan Bradley

I would never re-write you. You are by far my most complete and greatest novel. — Virginia Woolf

As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state. — William Golding

God I'm in love, and it feels so good! — Veronica Brannon

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel. — Noah Baumbach

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

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25. — Jess Walter

I am glad it's [California novel] resonated with people because, for me, most apocalyptic novels aren't scary, because they feel so very far off. — Edan Lepucki

I'm afraid I'm about to receive an entire novel from him. — Anonymous

As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel. — Em Bailey

Like I've told you before, Beverly, I don't care where we live as long as we're together." Vance ... "The Elder Effect — D.L. Given

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children. — Zane Grey

When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose. — Ted Dekker

I have no plans to use the Internet as the main subject of a novel. — Nelson DeMille

And on bad days, when his aura of sadness blazed like an alarm he couldn't turn off, I felt like I was doing everything wrong. — Lindsey Frydman

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it. — David Eddings

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable. — Charles Baxter

When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing. — William Gibson

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel — Haruki Murakami

Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then. — Ellen Hopkins

I might just write a novel next. I don't know! — Frank Ocean

How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. — Don DeLillo

He's made me believe I'm worth love of the liquid kind, you know, the kind that seeps to all my damaged parts. — Zandile

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel. — James C. Humes

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved. — Daniel Pennac

I don't write a novel every two years. — Jayne Anne Phillips

The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.' — Bartlett Sher

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it. — Utada Hikaru

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated. — Roddy Doyle

When I was 23 and about to go to law school, I thought I'd spend the summer writing a novel. — John Casey

My life was a beanstalk and I was Jack, and the foliage was shooting up and up, abundant, impressive, at such speed that I could barely cling on. — Jessie Burton

Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer. — Gary Shteyngart

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry. — Jan Karon

I'm an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past. — Kellyn Roth

I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies. — Kate Christensen

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it. — Charles Stross

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.' — Douglas Adams

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross

I can't promise you I won't ever screw up, but I can promise you that every single day I wake up, I will love you more then the day before. — T.K. Chapin

When I'm working on a novel, I generally do write every day, but in between those marathons, I take breaks. My brain needs time to recharge. — Marie Brennan

I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to. — Toni Sorenson

You're my best friend,
You're my love,
You're my life.
I can't wait to
make you
my wife!
Love, Ryan — Tina Reber

I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell. — Scott Turow

While I rather doubt whether, as has often been claimed, everyone has at least one novel inside them, it is undeniably true of theories ... — Richard C. Cox

I guess it's true: it's difficult for men to understand women. — Santonu Kumar Dhar

Where's the sun? Sometimes I never see the sun. — Randolph Randy Camp

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel! — Dodie Smith

I am also an author. Please check out my novel, A Life Worth Dreaming About. — Nicholas Dettmann

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. — Donna Tartt

-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?
I said nothing.
-Deny it,damn you! — Michael Ondaatje

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. — Pat Conroy

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster. — Marlee Matlin

To write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale. — Virginia Woolf

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock. — Craig Ferguson

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it. — Piers Anthony

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. — Toni Morrison

John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?' — Tom Robbins

I'm not a lawyer, but I play one in my novel COPYRIGHT. I also play a serial rapist, a drug addict, a teenage boy and lesbian model. — Lori Lesko

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel. — Ted Rall

I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal. — Sue Miller

I love you, Silvia. I have always loved you. I loved you before forever began and I'll love you still after forever ends.
Oliver — Melodie Ramone

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished. — Daniel Woodrell

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one. — Charles McCarry

Her friend glanced between Cait and Dante.
But Cait, The Hulk has requested my absence. I believe it best if I cooperate. — Abby Niles

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages. — Ruskin Bond

You know, nice guys finish last, don't you?"
"I guess I'll finish last. — Jalpa Williby

I could not put your new novel down. At 950 pages and weighing in at over ten lbs. I couldn't even pick the goddamned thing up! — Fred Barnett

There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job. — Jesse Kellerman

I wondered if a novel could have the power to make something so strange happen in actuality. — Elizabeth Kostova

I love you as much as my heart is allowed to love. — A. Valentine Joseph

When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that I was thrown out of graduate school. — James Altucher

Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did. — Charles Bukowski

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel. — Judith Rossner

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

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction. — Salman Rushdie

It's very silly," she said, "but I go on with it in spite of myself. I'm afraid I'm too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can't read it. — Henry James

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