Top Novel Quotes Collection
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She had always been an unashamed reader of novels.Collection: Novel
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.Collection: Novel
The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.Collection: Novel
The novel is rescued life.Collection: Novel
Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.Collection: Novel
My medium is prose, not the novel.Collection: Novel
I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.Collection: Novel
Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.Collection: Novel
When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.Collection: Novel
I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.Collection: Novel
A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.Collection: Novel
In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.Collection: Novel
History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.Collection: Novel
Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.Collection: Novel
I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs its own food.Collection: Novel
I know they are naught things, but I devour novels.” (p. 57).Collection: Novel
It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.Collection: Novel
Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novelCollection: Novel
It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.Collection: Novel
If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!Collection: Novel
Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.Collection: Novel
The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.Collection: Novel
When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.Collection: Novel
I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.Collection: Novel
All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place.Collection: Novel
Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!Collection: Novel
A novel is a performance you have to plan.Collection: Novel
What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in the best of ways.Collection: Novel
Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.Collection: Novel