Novel Quotes - Page 20

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics actually written by people who are comics writers and who aren't setting out to do graphic novels.

The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality.

I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel

Im a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play World of Warcraft, Im a massive gamer, I have Star Trek outfits.

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood.

It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.

As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment they became successful, that was all they were allowed to do. So you end up talking to the bestselling science-fiction author who wrote a historical-fiction novel that everybody loved, but no one would publish.

As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake - and then you can have a second cake if you wanted to.

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

A novel is a mirror walking down a road

Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.