1137 Novel Quotes for You to Enjoy

If I use the word 'khichdi' in my novel, I don't have to get into the trouble of explaining that it is a dish of rice and lentils. My Indian readers know it. Ashwin Sanghi

Word Trouble Indian Know Readers Get Dish Explaining Rice Use Novel

Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel. Astro Teller

Life Culture Intelligence Our Those Tell Tried Details About Only Through New Also Well Well Known Known Comment Artificial Stories Story Engaging Novel Number

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration. Barbara Kingsolver

Life Time You Become Own Down Side Table Pick Put Another Bed Up Person Duration Same Same Time Your Novel

Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child. Barbara Kingsolver

When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel. Barry Barish

Great Science Ambition Young Could Write Know Really Novel

The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.' Bartlett Sher

Think Read Romantic Novel Last

I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege. Ben Barnes

A novel quite possibly won't be good and, even more possibly, will have not-good parts, but at least it won't shape-shift on you; at least you can say that you're halfway through and know that this maps onto some clear, visualizable chunk of narrative. Ben Dolnick

With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have to make the clay first. Bill Clegg

Life Work You Writing First Memoir Clay Make Your Novel

A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.' Billy Collins

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My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move. Billy Collins

The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out to parties, I just have to be alone. I hate people and feel like they're keeping me from what I really want to do, like write a fabulous novel, which I probably never will. Bob Colacello

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A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.' Bob Shacochis

Good You Pretty Pretty Good Touch Write Writer Good Writer Looked Said Editors Effect Up Bunch Get Stories Agents Should Whole Novel Grow Grow Up Published

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel. Bob Woodward

Watergate Complicated Immensely Characters Scandal Varied Cast Novel Tolstoy

I often say flippantly that the short story is... shorter; you can be done with it more easily. It's much less of a commitment of time and energy than a big project like a novel or long nonfiction book. Bobbie Ann Mason

Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for so long - turned me into an observer. Actually, right after I got out of the hospital, I did start writing a novel, but the book was so transparently about me that I stopped. Brent Runyon

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Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. Bret Easton Ellis

Writing Cocktail Out Easy Find Step Hour Method Acting Novel

'100 Bullets' is a novel on its own. 'Brother Lono,' other than the main character, has nothing to do with '100 Bullets.' Brian Azzarello

Character Own Nothing Other Brother Main Main Character Bullets Than Novel

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