Quotes About Novel

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.

I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

Novel writing wrecks homes.

The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it into something new.

Be careful what you tell me. You could end up in my next novel.

The prank is entitled "Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm".

... the novel, arguably the author's best, had a disquieting power, like a sleeping crocodile.

It was a dark and stormy night. . .perfect for staying indoors and writing a novel!

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.