Quotes About Novel

We had chosen as our next book club selection Jhumpa Lahiri's new collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth, as we'd both loved her 2003 novel The Namesake and her first book of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, which had won the Pulitzer in 1999.

A Thousand Splendid Suns, the new book by Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner.

There is a sense of culture-shock in picking up this volume: we encounter the familiar stories, but in a novel garb.

He [Huxley] once explained that his aim as a novelist was 'to arrive, technically, at a perfect fusion of the novel and the essay', arguing that the novel should be like a holdall, bursting with opinion and arresting ideas.

You say in your letter the historian writes the truth. Forgive me, I must disagree. The historian writes a truth. The memoirist writes a truth. The novelist writes a truth. And so on.

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

Según él, de lo que se trataba no era de que nos guste leer o nos deje de gustar, sino más bien de saber cómo hallar el libro que nos corresponde. A todo el mundo le puede encantar leer si se cumple la condición de tener en las manos la novela adecuada, la que nos va a gustar, la que nos va a decir algo y que no podremos soltar.

Seguramente se sentiría muy orgullosa de haber sido la compañera del hombre que había escrito aquella novela; siempre podría decir que ella había sido su inspiración. No hay edad para empezar a ejercer de musa.

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

Tristram Shandy may perhaps go on a little longer, but we will not follow him. With all his drollery there is a sameness of extravagance which tires us. We have just a succession of Surprise, surprise, surprise.

In Conservatory of Death we see modern culture tired and kicking at the end of a rope. It is perhaps the first "deathpunk" novel.

Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".

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

Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.

John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'

But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

I couldn't decide on a title for my first novel and my editor came up with Everything Good Will Come. After that, I thought I should name my own books.A Bit of Difference seems just right.

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.

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