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In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed. — Elizabeth Bowen

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived. — Richard Peck

Yes, it had been a perfect match, except for the fact that he had been perfectly in love with someone else. — Sarah MacLean

I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways. — Kiese Laymon

By the time you figure out how the world really works, you've already lost about everything you'd hope to keep — Paul Pope

In books and movies, the stories always end when the two people finally have their romantic kiss. The happily-ever-after part is just assumed — Gayle Forman

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

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are. — Aidan Chambers

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno . — Italo Svevo

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 Loon Charm

To A Life Filled with A Love Whose Voice Always Calls You Home — Viola Shipman

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. — Henry James

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different. — Mohsin Hamid

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

As the fireworks began to illuminate the sky above them, Blake and Veronica made love for the first time on Hideaway Hill. — Elle A. Rose

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

One cannot always marry the person one loves... — Kate Mosse

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel. — Kenzaburo Oe

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

I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath. — Larry McMurtry

Night was swiftly approaching, but darkness would soon be a specter of the past — Luis Gonzalez

Bear in mind that the novel
no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective
is always an historical projection of its own time. — Samuel R. Delany

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

If it was possible for two people to make sparks, simply by connecting at their lips, I would think we would have been a firework display in the dark. — Kristen Hope Mazzola

It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult. — Prue Leith

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

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. — Anthony Trollope

A novel need not impart information or inform. It must seduce & snare the reader with feelings & break the reader's heart. — Mark Rubinstein

The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it. — Daniel J. Boorstin

People believe in everything except the reality. — Min Kim

Apparently, he was too busy living his own life to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine. — Melissa Kantor

He wrote a novel, The Moon Is Down, for a precursor to the CIA, — John Steinbeck

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists. — John Banville

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. — Alan Paton

'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material. — Luke Rhinehart

Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism. — A.E. Samaan

She shoved to her feet. What the hell is that scroll? Some sort of Aegis romance novel? Underworld erotica? Screw you all. — Larissa Ione

Prophecy is characteristic for the epic, prediction for the novel. — Mikhail Bakhtin

The difference between fanfic and a "real" novel is that fanfic is honest about its inspiration. — Mary Robinette Kowal

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings. — Mary Stewart

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

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished. — Daniel Woodrell

That's the exciting part about capitalism. It's like surfing, you have to catch the wave. - Martin Peter (aka Vermin Gobsmack) — Jamie Delano

What draws the reader to the novel is the hope of warming his shivering life with a death he reads about — Walter Benjamin

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one. — Charles McCarry

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing. — Daniel Craig

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

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages. — Ruskin Bond

The solution, she elaborates, is for couples to do novel and exciting things together (to release dopamine and get the romance rush), — Neil Strauss

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen

You may be done with the past, but the past may not be done with you. — Jennifer Dwight

The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone. — Lisa Unger

The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books. — Gail Z. Martin

I could not put your new novel down. At 950 pages and weighing in at over ten lbs. I couldn't even pick the goddamned thing up! — Fred Barnett

The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread. — Brian A. McBride

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

You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen. — Jerry Pournelle

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting. — Diane Von Furstenberg

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey. — Kathryn Joyce

Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie. — Rick DeStefanis

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

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench. — Wilbur Smith

The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but one weedy species. — Elizabeth Kolbert

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

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

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

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

-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

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

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

The couples that did the novel and exciting activities showed a significantly greater increase in relationship quality. — Aziz Ansari

Zembla is a site devoted to the life and works of author, translator, and lepidopterist. — Vladimir Nabokov

A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief. — Dave Morris

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it. — Piers Anthony

'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer. — Rachel Kushner

I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's a nice change of pace each time. — John Boyne

History is an ongoing novel, but if we don't learn from what we read and see we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history. — Tony Brooks

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time. — Sara Sheridan

When dreams evaporate into the clouds and come back down as tiny rain droplets, are they the same dreams, or something altogether new? — Marilyn Grey

I firmly believe that if you can't fool all of the people all of the time you should start breeding them for stupidity. - Weisshaupt — Dave Sim

Reading is a bridge from misery to hope. — Rebecca VanDeMark

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross

Be the person you really are and not the person you'e allowed yourself to become, Kate said to Nikki.
From 'Life Song — Christine M. Knight

One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning. — Barbara Pym

I can't promise you I won't ever screw up, but I can promise you that every single day I wake up, I will love you more then the day before. — T.K. Chapin

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 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

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