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Novel Quotes
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure. - Carl Clinton Van Doren Quotes
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! - Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. Thats what their substance is. - Jonathan Miller Quotes
The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane, almost like a fictional novel or a movie script. - William L Jenkins Quotes
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. - Henry David Thoreau Quotes
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer. - Samuel E Morison Quotes
Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel Id just finished was horror, too. - George Stephen Quotes
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. - Flannery Oconnor Quotes
My family can always tell when Im well into a novel because the meals get very crummy. - Anne Tyler Quotes
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 Quotes
It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
Ive got a near complete horror novel at my desk, plus a number of short stories, plus preliminary outlines for two other novels. - George Stephen Quotes
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world. - Jonathan Kellerman Quotes
Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused. - Joe Klein Quotes
The fire burns as the novel taught it how. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know. - C S Forester Quotes
Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998. - Robert Macneil Quotes
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out. - Sandra Cisneros Quotes
I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old. - Danielle Steel Quotes
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. Thats what makes it different from both high art and folk art. - Leslie Fiedler Quotes
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. - John Irving Quotes
For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples. - Hu Shih Quotes
But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort. - Amos Oz Quotes
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. - Toni Morrison Quotes
By asking a novel question that you dont know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new. - Walter Gilbert Quotes
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didnt concern the central issues, it wouldnt be worth publishing. - Alan Paton Quotes
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its authors life. - Andre Maurois Quotes
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