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Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft ...
— Elizabeth Bowen
You might just be the craziest person I've ever know, but you're also the bravest. - Marcus
— J. Scott Savage
A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.
— Christy Leigh Stewart
It was the gaze of a person who yearns for something and refuses to believe it will never be hers, because hope is the only thing she has left.
— Felix J. Palma
The novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.
— Robert Musil
Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella.
(spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa) — Mario Vargas-Llosa
(spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa) — Mario Vargas-Llosa
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
The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.
— Norman Mailer
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.
— Virginia Woolf
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.
— Leslie Fiedler
If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that he knows not more.
— William Cowper
To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.
— Raf Simons
You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.
— Christina Westover
I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.
— Jeanette Winterson
Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.
— Susan Sontag
How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
— Aung San Suu Kyi
The sky is the limit. I'm just following where life takes me. It's been an incredible journey.
— Christina Aguilera
The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.
— Thomas S. Monson
I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.
— Harvey Pekar
Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling.
— Tara Dobbs
the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
— Aubrey F.G. Bell