A good
novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad
novel tells us the truth about its author.
View quotes by Gilbert Keith ChestertonA
novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road (Le rouge et le noir)
View quotes by Stendhal (henri Beyle)A clockwork orange (title of
novel 1962)
View quotes by Anthony BurgessThe postman always rings twice (title of
novel)
View quotes by James M CainThe principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great best-sellers.(The Living
Novel)
View quotes by V S PritchettThe bonfire of the vanities. (Title of
novel, 1987)
View quotes by Tom WolfeThe only obligation to which in advance we may hold a
novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
View quotes by Henry JamesThere are three rules for writing the
novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
View quotes by W Somerset MaughamI can't understand why a person will take a year to write a
novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
View quotes by Fred AllenLife is God's
novel. Let him write it.
View quotes by Isaac SingerYes, oh dear, yes, the
novel tells a story.
View quotes by E M ForsterA
novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
View quotes by Jim RohnIt's not a good idea to put your wife into a
novel; not your latest wife anyway.
View quotes by Norman MailerLost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every
novel.
View quotes by Andre MauroisSome books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it. [On the
novel Spares]
View quotes by David BaddielAny fool can write a
novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
View quotes by J G BallardIf you wrote a
novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
View quotes by Alan PatonI have never known a
novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
View quotes by Edith WhartonA
novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
View quotes by Saul BellowLandscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American
novel.
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