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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.

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.

The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.

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

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

The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.

The best project is one that asks a novel question.

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

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

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 Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

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

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.

The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.

The novel tradition is the closest thing I have to a religion, and being a part of that tradition means a lot to me. I don't really see - I never have seen - why I should have to forfeit that feeling, or hope, of belonging, just because the stories I want to tell are close to my own experience.

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

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.

The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.

The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that is! (Jamie Sullivan)

There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer.

There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.