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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Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
Bret Easton Ellis 
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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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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Oliver Goldsmith
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The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.
Ahmet Zappa
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I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.
Nicholas Mosley
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I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
Rose Tremain
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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
W. H. Auden
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