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Novel Quotes (page 15)

My ideal state as a reader when I’m reading other people is feeling I’m vaguely wasting my time when I’m not reading that novel. Ian Mcewan
The final test of a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, of anything else which we cannot define. E. M. Forster
Anthony Trollope quote: "Who would ever think of learning to live out of an English novel?"
Who would ever think of learning to live out of an English novel? Anthony Trollope
I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel. Terry Prachett
I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all. Laurell K. Hamilton
LADY CROOM: You have been reading too many novels by Mrs Radcliffe, that is my opinion. This is a garden for The Castle of Otranto or The Mysteries of Udolpho -- CHATER: The Castle of Otranto, my lady, is by Horace Walpole. NOAKES: (Thrilled) Mr Walpole the gardener?! LADY CROOM: Mr Chater, you are a welcome guest at Sidley Park but while you are one, The Castle of Otranto was written by whomsoever I say it was, otherwise what is the point of being a guest or having one? Tom Stoppard
It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology Noam Chomsky
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "The problem lies not with the characters within the novel, but..."
The problem lies not with the characters within the novel, but with the reader itself. Vladimir Nabokov
In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades. But only a few weeks ago, in Beverly Hills one night, a husband and wife passed me, walking their dog. I stood staring after them, absolutely stunned. The woman held in one hand a small cigarette-package-sized radio, its antenna quivering. From this sprang tiny copper wires which ended in a dainty cone plugged into her right ear. There she was, oblivious to man and dog,... Ray Bradbury
Walter Benjamin quote: "what draws the reader to the novel is the hope of warming his..."
what draws the reader to the novel is the hope of warming his shivering life with a death he reads about Walter Benjamin
After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share? Orhan Pamuk
Stephen King quote: "Ben smiled back, 'Mark Twain said a novel was a confession to..."
Ben smiled back, 'Mark Twain said a novel was a confession to everything by a man who had never done anything. Stephen King
The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles our technique of living day by day--a way of relating. Joyce Carol Oates
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history. Joseph Conrad
Anthony Powell quote: "Literature illuminates like only to those for whom books are a..."
Literature illuminates like only to those for whom books are a necessity."From a character in a novel by Anthony Powell

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