Novel Reader Quotes
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Novel Reader Quotes & Sayings
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As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
— Nancy Kress
A successful novel should interrupt the reader's life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.
— Stephen King
The reader is always looking for two things in the novel: themselves and transcendence.
— Walter Mosley
The problem lies not with the characters within the novel, but with the reader itself.
— Vladimir Nabokov
A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.
— Michael Koryta
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
— Anthony Trollope
I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.
— Nell Freudenberger
It's a rare reader who doesn't go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.
— Norman Rush
The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.
— Annie Dillard
A novel in which the reader will ask many questions concerning Mayan antiquity.
— Peter J. Wetzelaer
Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart Cries.
— Tamera Alexander
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
— T. S. Eliot
I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.
— Jane Austen
The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision.
— John Gaddis
I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.
— Steve Erickson
The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.
— Nicholson Baker
A novel need not impart information or inform. It must seduce & snare the reader with feelings & break the reader's heart.
— Mark Rubinstein
What draws the reader to the novel is the hope of warming his shivering life with a death he reads about
— Walter Benjamin
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
— Alice Hoffman
Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.
— Dani Shapiro
The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.
— Jane Smiley
Merrick belonged to that class of reader who was able to forget with amazing ease the hand moving the characters behind the scenes of the novel.
— Felix J. Palma
There is something of the ghoul in the page-swallower and of the novel-reader in the stroller through cemeteries.
— Regis Debray
For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.
— Mary McCarthy
I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.
— Anna Quindlen
A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
— Mohsin Hamid
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
— Mary McCarthy
Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge.
— Joshua Cohen
A novel has to entertain that's the contract with the reader: you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to turn every page. — Barbara Kingsolver
