Quotessence
Home / Topics / Novel Quotes

Novel Quotes

Browse 6108 quotes about Novel.

Related topics

WritingBookThinkingStoriesIfsPeopleCharacterFirstsKnowsWayWorldReadingYearsWrittenFictionWantReaderTryingKindIdeasFeelsLiteratureShort StoryDifferentLongTwoMenShouldFilmFormWellsEndsI CanNovelistsArtPagesRealGraphicMayLittlesStillsImportantMadeNeedsGraphic NovelsBelieveHumansMeanGivingMindPersonsSometimesBigsDoeSeemsPlayHappensHas BeensFactsHardPlotRomanceWantedWholeLooksMightDoneNextEnoughThreeHeartChildrenSaidUseHistoricalCoursesMysteryWould BeLanguageMovingReasonCrimeFeelingsMomentsFantasyTermDreamPastBitsLastsRomance NovelYoungCertainComicImaginationProcessSelfMatterScreenplaysShowsmore

Novel Quotes

“Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never been a two-hour-in-the-morning writer, who could put in another six hours on Sunday afternoon. For me, a novel requires weeks of living in a largely mental and wholly internal landscape. Everything else has to be relegated to the odd hour here, the bit of time there. Sadly, however, uninterrupted time blocks are not what life doles out today to any of us with regularity.”

LongTwoTodayBitsHoursFictionMorningNovelWeekSixBlockLandscapeOddInternalsSundayAfternoonRegularityFruitionSunday Afternoons
Book:Conversations with Samuel R. Delany
Create image

“I've no objection to the term 'graphic novel,' as long as what it is talking about is actually some sort of graphic work that could conceivably be described as a novel. My main objection to the term is that usually it means a collection of six issues of Spider-Man, or something that does not have the structure or any of the qualities of a novel, but is perhaps roughly the same size.”

MenMeanLongDoeTermQualityTalkingNovelIssuesSixStructureSizeCollectionsSpidersGraphicObjectionsSpider ManGraphic Novels
Author:Alan Moore
Create image

“I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six novels are continuous and contain the same set of characters. They are based on Manning's experiences in Eastern Europe and Egypt during the Second World War. Each novel is a wonderful picture of the peculiar British expatriate culture and what was happening during the war. She's one of those brilliant women who write very well about domestic relationships. All the books are slim, and it's easy to gallop through them.”

WorldWritingWellsTwoBookWarCharacterCultureEasyKnownNovelWonderfulSixHappeningsEuropeSeriesBritishFinishedBrilliantWar Of The WorldsPeculiarEgyptEasternSecond World WarSlimEastern EuropeTrilogiesBalkansOliviaExpatriates
Author:Sarah Waters
Create image

“The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice of those arts that isn't very pleasant. It used to be that a poet like Tennyson could keep his house and his coach-and-four and his staff of six servants on the income from poetry. That doesn't happen anymore.”

MayArtHappensFormUsedDiesHousePracticeNovelFourPoetSixCoachesThings HappenIncomeUsed To BeServantPleasantStaffTennyson
Author:William Monahan
Create image

“I was reading Raymond Chandler very much with the feminist eye. In six of his seven novels, it's the woman who presents herself in a sexual way, who is the main bad person. And then you start reading more fiction, whether crime fiction or straight fiction, it's just bad girls trying to make good boys do bad things, going all the way back to Adam and Eve. The woman that thou gavest me made me do it, Adam says to God.”

WayTryingPersonsMadeEyeGirlReadingFictionBoysNovelCrimeSixSevenFeministBad ThingsAdamCrime FictionAdam And EveBad GirlGood BoyReading More
Author:Sara Paretsky
Create image