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 had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
Jane Rule 
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My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.
Robert Cormier
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I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.
Tracy Kidder
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We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.
Steve Albini
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I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
Marguerite Young
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No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
Octavia Butler
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If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.
John Tesh
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The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
Wole Soyinka
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I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.
Helen Dunmore
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
Ted Rall
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