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Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

Life's like a novel with the end ripped out.

Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times

Many of my works fall into the category of "Zeitgeist novels." Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.

Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Let nothing novel be introduced!

Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle….

My medium is prose, not the novel.

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...

My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.

Novel writing is solitary work.

NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

"Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot.

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all around us.

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.

Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint.

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

Novel writing wrecks homes.

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.