Novel Quotes - Page 3

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

God pity the poor novelist.

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

Life's like a novel with the end ripped out.

History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.

I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.

Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.