Novel Quotes

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
Leslie Fiedler

Until, Along, Existence

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

Art, Different, Makes

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
Vladimir Nabokov

Long, Rather, Making

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.
Hugh Laurie

Life, Remember, Cannot

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J. G. Ballard

Fool, Real, Write

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.
Neil Gaiman

Short, Brother, Story

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

Important, Wonderful, Makes

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
Dean Koontz

Life, Human, Personal

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.
Dean Koontz

Work, Working, Weeks

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
Dean Koontz

Fear, Writing, Write

I've never abandoned the novel.
V. S. Naipaul

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
V. S. Naipaul

Alone, Write, Sit

Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.
Jane Smiley

Work, Death, Hard

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.
Joyce Carol Oates

Together, Enough, Before

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.
Truman Capote

True, End, Single

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
Wallace Stevens

Fire, Taught, Burns

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.
Haruki Murakami

Time, Bored, Creative

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
Jane Smiley

Work, Before, Around

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.
Jane Smiley

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
James Buchan

Life, Love, Nature

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Saul Bellow

Life, True, Between

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

Good, Best, Study

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
Dean Koontz

Love, Pain, Writing

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.
Sidney Sheldon

Write, Movie, Yours

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
Harlan Coben

Might, Final, Taste

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
Flannery O'Connor

Experience, Writing, Hair

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.
Paul Theroux

Possible, Essence, Captures

Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.
Leslie Fiedler

Sense, American, Point

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.
Leslie Fiedler

Sex, Become, American

Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.
Leslie Fiedler

End, Past, Present

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