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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
The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
— John Herschel
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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 project is one that asks a novel question.
— Walter Gilbert
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
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
— Pat Conroy
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
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
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
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
