English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Novel Quotes (page 25)

T. S. Eliot quote: "A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the..."
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give. T. S. Eliot
Michael Chabon quote: "All novels are sequels; influence is bliss."
All novels are sequels; influence is bliss. Michael Chabon
Michael Connelly quote: "You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up..."
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."("The Castle") Michael Connelly
Like any good novel, it lulled him into an almost tranquil state of awareness before it jolted him - it caught him completely by surprise. John Irving
A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog. Stephen King
To those great geniuses now in petticoats, who shall write novels for the beloved reader's children, these men and things will be as much legend and history as Nineveh, or Coeur de Lion, or Jack Sheppard. William Makepeace Thackeray
Anton Chekhov quote: "Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget..."
Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me. Anton Chekhov
Dawn Powell quote: "A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by..."
A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct. Dawn Powell
My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that I haven’t read many of them and I never will. You just never know. One day I may — need is the word I use — to read Finnegans Wake, the Icelandic sagas, Churchill’s history of the Second World War, the complete Tintin in French, 47 novels by Simenon, and By Love Possessed. Roger Ebert
Now see here, Guy,” said the voice, “you’re not dealing with any dumb two-bit trigger pumping morons with low hair-lines, little piggy eyes and no conversation, we’re a couple of intelligent caring guys that you’d probably quite like if you met us socially! I don’t go around gratuitously shooting people and then bragging about it afterward in seedy space-rangers bars, like some cops I could mention! I go around shooting people gratuitously and then I agonize about it afterward for hours to my... Douglas Adams
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels..."
the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon Elizabeth Bowen
Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels.But.Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood.It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd. Jodi Picoult
Anthony Trollope quote: "To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels,..."
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods. Anthony Trollope
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something. Orson Scott Card
If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I’ll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming ‘Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese? Stephen King

Popular Topics

Popular Author