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[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived. — Richard Peck

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going. — Penelope Lively

By the time you figure out how the world really works, you've already lost about everything you'd hope to keep — Paul Pope

When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it. — Thomas Harris

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein. — Henry Ward Beecher

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are. — Aidan Chambers

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

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno . — Italo Svevo

One of the notebooks was for musings and pep talks. ... The other notebooks were for writing out the novel the way authors had done for centuries. — Gail Godwin

The Loon Charm

To A Life Filled with A Love Whose Voice Always Calls You Home — Viola Shipman

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. — Henry James

Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book. — Italo Calvino

As the fireworks began to illuminate the sky above them, Blake and Veronica made love for the first time on Hideaway Hill. — Elle A. Rose

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

Like any good novel, it lulled him into an almost tranquil state of awareness before it jolted him - it caught him completely by surprise. — John Irving

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

They shoot the white girl first. — Toni Morrison

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

Bear in mind that the novel
no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective
is always an historical projection of its own time. — Samuel R. Delany

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

It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult. — Prue Leith

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life. — E. M. Forster

Sometime rhetoric was just
another way to lie and impress persons,
and he knew this — Haidji

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

My illusion, the idea of a soul mate, was so entrenched in my fantasy that the thought of letting him go, wrecked me. — M.R. Field

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit. — Harlan Ellison

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

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

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

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

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. — Howard Gordon

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

One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning. — Barbara Pym

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

Life is God's novel. Let him write it. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen. — Jerry Pournelle

A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good. — Rick Bass

She shoved to her feet. What the hell is that scroll? Some sort of Aegis romance novel? Underworld erotica? Screw you all. — Larissa Ione

Prophecy is characteristic for the epic, prediction for the novel. — Mikhail Bakhtin

The difference between fanfic and a "real" novel is that fanfic is honest about its inspiration. — Mary Robinette Kowal

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

After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber. — Brian Azzarello

The couples that did the novel and exciting activities showed a significantly greater increase in relationship quality. — Aziz Ansari

Zembla is a site devoted to the life and works of author, translator, and lepidopterist. — Vladimir Nabokov

When dreams evaporate into the clouds and come back down as tiny rain droplets, are they the same dreams, or something altogether new? — Marilyn Grey

It's said that we can all choose our own destiny. But sometimes, for a special few, destiny has no choice but to choose for you. — Steve M. Robinson Jr.

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

Nearly all novels are too long. — Rose Macaulay

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

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

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time. — Sara Sheridan

Moonrise is a fabulous novel and my damn wife wrote it and that's me up there near Highlands shouting it out to the hills. — Pat Conroy

Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience. — Angelika Rust

Congratulations," she said. "You win. — Megan Duke

-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

...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant's Woman — John Fowles

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory. — Dan Chaon

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

Read my book and you shall know thee — Oscar Sanders

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

Brian organised for the body to be flown back. — Jolene Tan

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

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

The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but one weedy species. — Elizabeth Kolbert

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench. — Wilbur Smith

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

'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer. — Rachel Kushner

A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief. — Dave Morris

Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism. — A.E. Samaan

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

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

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty. — Henri Poincare

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

In this life, all is Evanescent. Live for the now — Carlyle Labuschagne

Change your mind and change your whole life experience. — C.G. Rousing

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word. — Carlos Fuentes

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

When we reach the point when our lives take on their final shape as in a novel we can identify our happiest moment selecting it in retrospective — Orhan Pamuk

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. — Andre Maurois

Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired. — Edmund Phelps

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. — Lord Chesterfield

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

The novel was simple, heartwarming, painful, and lovely, all in perfect doses." -Writer's Digest Review of Emily Nelson's The Locket — Emily Nelson

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

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it. — Thomas Harris

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

If valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth, as Steven King once said, then Silicon Valley is the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all. — Betty Dravis

Though a modern woman's computer is more intimate than her bed ... — Elizaveta Mikhailichenko

Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie. — Rick DeStefanis

No man goes out upon a novel expedition without misgivings.

The Secret Places of The Heart (Kindle Loc 245) — H.G.Wells