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

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

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 novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented. — John Herschel

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

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

My own heart is in my characters. My novels are my memories; they are the best part of me. — Gabrielle Dubois

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

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

She could possibly hit the best-seller list if she sold it as a novel, though. — Shanna Swendson

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

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

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary. — Franklin P. Adams

'The Man in the High Castle' is still the best what-if-the-Axis-had-won novel. — Adrian McKinty

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back. — China Mieville

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study. — Saul Bellow

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

In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it gets made or gets purchased. — Nicholas Sparks

Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why. — Jonathan Messinger

The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot. — John Gardner

Every happy moments looks perfect till it gets messy — Sheeja Jose

The novel, arguably the author's best, had a disquieting power, like a sleeping crocodile. — Roberto Bolano

What great literature does best is to show us those moments which make life worth living. — Marty Rubin

There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing. — Willow Smith

Well, for people who want to write best sellers, the best advice I can give is to say that the novel has to engage the reader emotionally. — Ken Follett

The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from. — Val McDermid

I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all. — Nicholas Sparks

Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End — Ken Scott

It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters. — Baltasar Gracian

Ernest Hemingway said it best: "A novel is just like real life, with the boring parts taken out. — Lee Gimenez

For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food. — Hallie Ephron

The best way to keep your house spotless is to begin writing a novel. — Jen Knox

The best project is one that asks a novel question. — Walter Gilbert

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels. — Evelyn Waugh

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

-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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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