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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.

Raymond Carver had the quote that I loved about how he felt that a short story was the moment right before someone's life was about to fall apart. You can't really do that with a novel, but with a story you're just left hanging.

Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.

Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.

That's how I work, whether with stories or novels - they start with an image that comes to me in a daydream, and a lot of times I'm walking around with these pictures in my head for awhile before I start writing.

Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, 'The sign that one has acquired one's learning from reading novels rather than an education.

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.

The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered.

The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

The best project is one that asks a novel question.

The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.

The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.

The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.

The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality.

The incredible stability in inflation is really a novel human experience. And the inflation is being the result of money.

The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a good novel.

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament.

The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.

The novel ceases to be looked at as a novel. Such is the overwhelming power of motion pictures. Gore Vidal pointed out that the movies are the only thing anybody's really interested in. The association with movies and movie money can, and certainly did in my case, occlude a novel as a novel.

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.

The novel remains a very special form for me.