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Novel Quotes (page 19)

Harper Lee quote: "A novel of great sweetness, humor, compassion, and of mystery..."
A novel of great sweetness, humor, compassion, and of mystery carefully sustained." Harper's Magazine Harper Lee
Instead of making myself write the book I ought to write, the novel that was expected of me, I conjured up the book I myself would have liked to read, the sort by an unknown writer, from another age and another country, discovered in an attic. Italo Calvino
In another Nabokov novel, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Sebastian's brother discovers two seemingly incongruous pictures in his dead brother's library: a pretty, curly-haired child playing with a dog and a Chinese man in the act of being beheaded. The two pictures remind us of the close relation between banality and brutality. Azar Nafisi
Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about the world, a world not only of fact but of imagination and emotion. Alice Hoffman
Jim Harrison quote: "I wish Barry Lopez would write novels. from "Conversations..."
I wish Barry Lopez would write novels. from "Conversations with Jim Harrison Jim Harrison
I was not going to Honolulu because I wanted to see life reduced to a short story. I was going to Honolulu because I wanted to see life expanded to a novel, and I still do. Joan Didion
A novel has to entertain -- that's the contract with the reader: you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to turn every page. Barbara Kingsolver
John Braine quote: "There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you..."
There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it. John Braine
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. Kurt Vonnegut
Carol Shields quote: "This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting..."
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. Carol Shields
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play or novel does not immediately engage one's surface interest then it has failed. Whatever else it may or may not be, art is also entertainment. Bad art fails to entertain. Good art does something in addition. Brigid Brophy
Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.... Salman Rushdie
Haruki Murakami quote: "I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an..."
I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel Haruki Murakami
In the Author’s mind there bubbles up every now and then the material for a story. For me it invariable begins with mental pictures. This ferment leads to nothing unless it is accompanied with the longing for a Form: a verse or prose, short story, novel, play or what not. When these two things click you have the Author’s impulse complete. (from the essay Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s To Be Said) C. S. Lewis
A novel! Why do you say this won't liberate anyone? Where does any man go to be free, whether he is poor or rich or even in prison? To Dostoyevsky! To Gogol! Barbara Kingsolver

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