Novel Quotes

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Winston Churchill

Great, Seem, Land

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
Henry David Thoreau

Night, Less, Profane

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Jim Rohn

Philosophy, Put, Images

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway

Character, Writing, Living

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.
Steve Jobs

Learn, Write, Read

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

Good, Stupid, Person

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Anais Nin

Life, Book, Person

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham

Writing, Three, Knows

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good, Truth, Bad

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
George Orwell

Literature, Above, Atmosphere

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
Alexis de Tocqueville

End, Revolution, Difficult

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller

Simple, Everyone, Fact

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
Chuck Palahniuk

Best, Real, Sense

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden

Lazy, Bored, Unexpected

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

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut

Person, Put, She

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
Andre Maurois

Lost, Illusion, Title

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
W. Somerset Maugham

Great, American, Written

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
Mason Cooley

Sublime, Avoids, Seeks

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.
Stephen King

Life, Love, Movies

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
E. M. Forster

Friends, Cannot, Else

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Virginia Woolf

Money, Nothing, Writing

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
Milan Kundera

Knowledge, Morality, Existence

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
E. O. Wilson

Writing, Difficult, Writer

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
E. O. Wilson

Wanted, Write, Southern

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
E. O. Wilson

Mind, Writing, Career

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Stendhal

Road, Mirror, Along

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
Andre Maurois

Life, Great, Negative

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.
Haruki Murakami

Life, Today, Writing

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.
J. K. Rowling

Everything, Tell, Resist

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