Top Novel Quotes
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
Alan Paton
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
Ted Rall
I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.
Poppy Z. Brite
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.
Sergio Aragones
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Jose Saramago
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I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
Jean Rhys 
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The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
Mary McCarthy
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
Peter Shaffer
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The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.
Rose Tremain
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What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.
Jonathan Miller
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Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
Marilyn Hacker
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Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.
David Thewlis
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I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.
Kevin J. Anderson
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