1134 Novel Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Writing Three Rules No-One Knows Unfortunately Novel

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. Kurt Vonnegut

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Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure. Wayne Dyer

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The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship. Suzanne Brockmann

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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story. Daphne du Maurier

Love Women Men Short Want Short Story Story Novel

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. Ernest Hemingway

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A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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I guess one of the most magnificent things a novel can do is to change your perspective on the world, and to give it some sense of wonder, and that's what I find so exciting in writing fantasy, especially fantasy for children. Because already, I think children have a very special and unusual way of seeing the world. Marie Rutkoski

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If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step. Regina Brett

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Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths. Haruki Murakami

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Life is God's novel. Let him write it. Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life God Write Him Novel

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. J. G. Ballard

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I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this. Margaret Atwood

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People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to the bagginess of novel writing, it almost feels like a martial art. Matt Haig

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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. Toni Morrison

First Wrote Read Because Wanted Novel

I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism. Alessandro Michele

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All that time that we spend tweeting our thoughts and emotions to our next of kin, we could be writing the great American novel, starting a business, or just living. Alexandra Petri

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In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. Alexis de Tocqueville

Invent Revolution Difficult Part Most End Novel

I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,' 9/11 felt to me like a piece of the plot; the novel wasn't wrestling with what 9/11 meant. And 'Netherland' felt the same way. I liked both books a lot but I don't see them as 9/11 novels. Amy Waldman

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel. Andre Maurois

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I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel. Brit Marling

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end. C. S. Forester

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