Quotes About Novel

The post-modern novel is now conceding, if not its absurdity, then its limited durability.

There is no more grand moment in a writer's life than typing the first sentence of a new book.

I hope you enjoy Wayfaring Stranger. It's the best book and the most biographical one I have written.

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James Patterson

ever, according to Guinness World Records. Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1976, James

'Paycheck,' I thought, was a really, really good idea. I never got an opportunity, unfortunately, to read the novel, but I loved the idea of how to deal with intellectual properties. I just don't know that we necessarily got to the heart of that particular idea. I think it became more of a chase movie than anything else.

I wanted to make something very unique, something very different.

Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways.

'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as a repeated surprise even to readers who have read it before.

When I first read Margaret Atwood's novel 'The Handmaid's Tale,' it was Saudi Arabia as I knew it that came to mind, not a dystopian future United States as in the new television adaptation.

Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.

The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.

That larger story in 'Salvage the Bones' is just about survival, and I think that, in the end, there are things about this novel and about these characters' experiences that make their stories universal stories.

Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?'

Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.

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

By definition, outbreaks are quickly evolving situations. Outbreaks with novel diseases bring even more unknowns.

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

I'm inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two women discussing their struggle with their weight at the gym.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.

'Not Another Happy Ending' is a romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. It is about these two characters and their relationships.