Quotes About Novel

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

Seminaked men!" Jacky trilled. "With swords," Kat purred. "It is a romance novel!

The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.

I vill destroy de snickers bar!" Gazzy(The Gas Man)

Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first "adult novel," Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

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!

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

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

There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.

For the writer, the process of writing a novel is like getting an advanced copy of a book you'd really like to read.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

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.

The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

The comic strip is no longer the comic strip, but in reality an illustrated novel. It is new and raw in form just now, but material for limitless intelligent development. And eventually and inevitably it will a legitimate medium for the best writers and artists. It is already the embryo of a new art form.

Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas, a young writer originally from Boston who was now living and teaching in New York. Man Gone Down is another big, ambitious novel—about race, the American Dream, fatherhood, money, and love.