Quotes About Novel

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

Diana Gabaldon.

simply wait and be bored has become a novel experience in modern life, but from the perspective of concentration training, it's incredibly valuable.

be bored has become a novel experience in modern life, but from the perspective of concentration training, it's incredibly valuable.

If I organize my life in such a way that I get lots of long, consecutive, uninterrupted time-chunks, I can write novels. [If I instead get interrupted a lot] what replaces it? Instead of a novel that will be around for a long time … there is a bunch of e-mail messages that I have sent out to individual persons.

paperback novel of the escapist kind, SAS action stuff where men were men and women mattresses.

Admit it. If we were characters in a (super hot) romance novel, you'd be the vulnerable babe in need of a protector, and I'd be the hardcore alpha villain everyone secretly yearns to tame. Spoiler alert: I'm willing to let you give the taming thing your best shot. Because I'm a giver.

The darling man was sharing his body heat, reminding her of a beloved hero in a Julie Garwood novel.

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt wrote his seminal book, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, in 1984. It's a Socratic novel about Alex Rogo, a plant manager who must fix his cost and due date issues in ninety days, or his plant will be shut down.

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

Beware: forget the reworking of characters. Obviously, the time-span is short. The first three parts, in any case, will only cover a period of three years. As for the last two, well that's God's secret and what I wouldn't give to know it.

Odiava la guerra, che minacciava ben più della vita o del suo benessere: distruggeva in ogni istante l'universo della creazione romanzesca, l'unico in cui si sentisse felice, simile a uno squillo di tromba discordante e terribile che facesse crollare le fragili muraglie di cristallo erette con tanta fatica tra lui e il mondo esterno

A novel should be like a street full of strangers, where no more than two or three people are known to us in depth. Look at writers like Proust. They knew how to use minor characters to humiliate, to belittle their protagonists.

I struggled with a nebulous work which seemed now a nouvelle , now a vast novel, wherein a hero not unlike myself pursued, amid ghostly incidents, a series of reflections about life and art.

Comenzar una novela es como abrir la puerta o un paisaje neblinoso; ves muy poco, pero hueles la tierra y sientes el soplo del viento.

Prose literature can reveal an aspect of the world which no other art can reveal … and in the case of the novel, the most important thing to be thus revealed, not necessarily the only thing, but incomparably the most important thing, is that other people exist.

The book is quite serious and quite funny. (Most novels are.)

Everybody talks about being a writer, angel. If every novel conceived on a bar stool made it into print, there wood not be one tree left standing on God's green Earth.

January 1950, Doubleday published my first book, the science-fiction novel Pebble in the Sky, and I was hard at work on a second novel.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.' Character who said it in novel: Salvor Hardin

And yet, in March of 1983, I presented Doubleday with the "long-awaited" third robot novel. It has no connection whatever with the ill-fated attempt of 1958, and its name is The Robots of Dawn.

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

Cuando escribo cuento la vida como me gustaría que fuera, como una novela.