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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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