Quotes About Novel

I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you.

Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that's impossible to put down. A tremendous debut.

Your life is a novel, every day is a page, and you have the power to make the story beautiful and go the way that you want it to go.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Ida was a natural historian who knew how to throw in enough fiction to keep up dramtic tension. And she was replete with details, like a big fat colorful nineteenth-century historical novel, inching forward slowly....Ida's narrative line, like her waistline, was ample.

In these times of rampantly increasing inequality, I would love to see a truly great social novel … books that really try to tell us how we're living now ... holding a mirror up to our society ... we can't think about trying to change our society before we understand it.

If you write a novel a great adventure awaits you. And like any strange and wondrous journey, there will be uncertainty, even fear. Just keep going

I think a good novel is a slow reveal--of the character and the plot. It's a process of discovery for the reader.

A novel need not impart information or inform. It must seduce & snare the reader with feelings & break the reader's heart.

Time, effort & persistence make for the writing of a good novel. There's no such thing as "writer's block." Just reluctance to make the slog

A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.

Conflict reveals character--in life and in the novel.

Write a novel so clear and compelling you'll never need to explain what it's about.

Without conflict, there is no story. Without a story, there is no novel--only the author's self-indulgent musings.

Make art from your own life. Bring insight to your suffering, find distance, and in your maturity, write about it. Conflict & drama are the essence of a novel.

Plot-driven or character-driven, a novel must grab the reader's emotions and not let go til the final word.

There's a novel in every life's story. You must have courage, perseverance and use imagination to unearth it.

A good novel appeals to emotions, not intellect. It makes you feel things deeply, and then you think about them.

The disappointment you feel when viewing the movie version of a character you've imagined while reading the novel.

Understand the power of a novel's opening lines. It sets expectations & draws the reader into the book's world.

Don't think. Imagine. Imagination is the firebed of a novel

This book has too much plot and not enough story.

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's funny.

A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented writer.