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Novel Quotes (page 24)

How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Don DeLillo
John Steinbeck quote: "We have only one story. All novels, all poetry are built on..."
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. John Steinbeck
Yes, interest! The worm of interest. Are you surprised? No? Yes? One conclusion I have reached here after a year in my cell is that the only emotion people feel nowadays is interest or the lack of it. Curiosity and interest and boredom have replaced the so-called emotions we used to read about in novels or see registered on actors' faces. Even the horrors of the age translate into interest. Did you ever watch anybody pick up a newspaper and read the headline PLANE CRASH KILLS THREE... Walker Percy
Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe (as I do) that we learn much more of human interest about how people think and feel and act by reading novels or studying history than from all of naturalistic psychology, and perhaps always will; similarly, the arts may offer appreciation of the heavens to which astrophysics cannot aspire. Noam Chomsky
Peter Cook quote: "I met a man at a party. He said "I'm writing a novel" I said..."
I met a man at a party. He said "I'm writing a novel" I said "Oh really? Neither am I. Peter Cook
Gene Wolfe quote: "All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it."
All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it. Gene Wolfe
fiction writing is like duck hunting. You go to the right place at the right time with the right dog. You get into the water before dawn, wearing a little protective gear, then you stand behind some reeds and wait for the story to present itself...You choose the place and the day. You pick the gun and the dog. You have the desire to blow the duck apart for reasons that are entirely your own. But you have to be willing to accept not what you wanted to have happen, but what happens... By... Ann Patchett
Michael Crichton quote: "This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't."
This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't. Michael Crichton
When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become a person? David Lodge
Inside the envelope with the letter was a little Princess Leia action figure USB flash drive. (they make these?) For me to store my novel on, since he was right-I never back up my computer's hard drive. The sight of it-it's Princess Leia in her Hoth outfit, my favorite of her costumes (how had he remembered?) brought tears to my eyes. Meg Cabot
I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it. Nobody could then 'smile darkly and ignore the howls.' Even if there were no Church to teach me this, writing two novels would do it. I think the more you write, the less inclined you will be to rely on theories like determinism. Mystery isn't something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowledge. Flannery O'Connor
Believe me, when I say; There are no two powers. That command the soul. One is God. The other is the tide.-Anon. From the novel Abarat Clive Barker
Francois Mauriac quote: "I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write..."
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. Francois Mauriac
In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her: the novels. She had read any number of them, from Fielding to Thomas Mann. They not only offered the possibility of an imaginary escape from a life she found unsatisfying; they also had a meaning for her as physical objects: she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane from the... Milan Kundera
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know. Don DeLillo

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