Quotes:The few really great - the major
novelists... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life (The Great Tradition)
View quotes by F R LeavisA
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 AllenAll humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history,
novels, art would be ineffectual.
View quotes by Honore De BalzacLife 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 MailerIf a person is not talented enough to be a
novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
View quotes by Norman MailerLost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every
novel.
View quotes by Andre MauroisWriters of
novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
View quotes by Mary Wortley MontaguA
novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
View quotes by Vladimir NabokovSome books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it. [On the
novel Spares]
View quotes by David BaddielIf you are a
novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a
novelist, except he was a Realist.
View quotes by John BarthWhat jobs are there in a backwards reality for a dead hologram and an android with a head shaped like a
novelty condom? [Rimmer, Red Dwarf]
View quotes by Chris BarrieI'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they? [High
Novelist]
View quotes by Nick HornbyAny fool can write a
novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
View quotes by J G BallardAs strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my
novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non-fiction-histories, biographies, translations of ancient texts.
View quotes by Dan BrownIt's with bad sentiments that one makes good
novels.
View quotes by Aldous HuxleyIf 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 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 ChestertonMiddlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English
novels for grown-up people.
View quotes by Virginia WoolfNothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to
novelty.
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