Novel Quotes - Page 19

I know this because Tyler knows this.

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

Sometimes seeing everything just gets in the way.

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.

I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of what it is to be human.

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

It's not an accident that, while bookstores are all in a tizzy, one of the more lively and alive sections is the so-called "graphic novel" section, because those are harder to replace.

Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.

Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").

NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, `Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.'... You take action.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.