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Novel Quotes (page 39)

People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system. If the novelist is not sustained by a hope of money, then he must be sustained by a hope of salvation, or he simply won’t survive the ordeal. Flannery O'Connor
Gustave Flaubert quote: "My novel is the rock to which I cling and I know nothing of..."
My novel is the rock to which I cling and I know nothing of what is taking place in the world. Gustave Flaubert
Mr Earbrass escaped from Messrs Scuffle and Dustcough, who were most anxious to go into all the ramifications of a scheme for having his novels translated into Urdu, and went to call on a distant cousin. Edward Gorey
L. M. Montgomery quote: "Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't..."
Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels. L. M. Montgomery
Mario Vargas Llosa quote: "Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only..."
Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella."(spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa) Mario Vargas Llosa
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating a complete landscape that I treasure. The green foliage of the trees casts a pleasant shade over the earth, and the wind rustles the leaves, which are sometimes dyed a brilliant gold. Meanwhile, in the garden, buds appear on the flowers, and colorful petals attract bees and butterflies, reminding us of the subtle transition from one season... Haruki Murakami
Ruth thought of a novel as a great, untidy house, a disorderly mansion; her job was to make the place fit to live in, to give it at least the semblance of order. Only when she wrote was she unafraid. John Irving
Alice Hoffman quote: "That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and..."
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination. Alice Hoffman
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Any man's life, told truly, is a novel..."
Any man's life, told truly, is a novel... Ernest Hemingway
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Anthony Burgess
As for his sudden change of heart, he had suddenly remembered the end of Mansfield Park, and how Edmund fell out of love with Mary Crawford and came to care for Fanny. Dulcie must surely know the novel well, and would understand how such things can happen. Barbara Pym
Sure, I knew the differences between a space opera and a hard-boiled detective story and a historical novel...but I never cared about such differences. It seemed to me, then as now, that there are good stories and bad stories, and that was the only distinction that truly mattered. George R. R. Martin
Benjamin Disraeli quote: "When I want to read a novel, I write one."
When I want to read a novel, I write one. Benjamin Disraeli
Thomas Harris quote: "Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including..."
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches. Thomas Harris
The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't... Wallace Stegner

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