Novel Quotes - Page 2

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired.

Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.

Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the adjacent possible. We didnt stay in the caves. We didnt stay on the planet, and soon we wont stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet.

It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings.

Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty!

The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film.

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.