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Novels Quotes (page 26)

London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand. A. Whitney Brown
Oscar Wilde quote: "I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end..."
I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Oscar Wilde
Ian Mcewan quote: "The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal..."
The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal for perfection. Too long, sometimes too much like life. Ian Mcewan
Things like this don't happen all that often in one lifetime. This is the magnificent world of a picaresque novel. Just brace yourself and enjoy the smell of evil. We're shooting the rapids. And when we go over the falls, let's do it together in grand style! Haruki Murakami
I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify those things in the past that are useful and those things that are not; and they ought to give nourishment. Toni Morrison
Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger. John Waters
I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them. J. K. Rowling
He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed. Neil Gaiman
When we're done with it, we may find—if it's a good novel—that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having meet a new face, crossed a street we've never crossed before. Ursula K. Le Guin
John Gardner quote: "One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel"
One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel John Gardner
George Orwell quote: "Writing a novel is agony."
Writing a novel is agony. George Orwell
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time. Wilkie Collins
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language Jane Austen
Harlan Ellison quote: "Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small..."
Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit. Harlan Ellison
The assertion that Americans love violence and bathe in it daily is a self-serving lie promulgated by fundamentalist religious types and America's propaganda-savvy gun-pimps. It's believed by people who don't read novels, play video games, or go to many movies Stephen King

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