Novel Quotes - Page 10

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

A great novel is worth one thousand films.

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer.

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.

To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.

A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than anything else.

Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.

Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets

Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

My medium is prose, not the novel.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels.

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.

The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions, even correct opinions - whenever asked - cheapens what novelists and poets do best, which is to sponsor reflectiveness, to pursue complexity. Information will never replace illumination.

Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.