Quotes about Novels

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Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue). — Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life
A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement — Jess C. Scott
Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. — Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicio — Janet Evanovich
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any. — Jean Rhys, Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such a — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we s — Michel Houellebecq, H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
Please, touch me, I pray. — Jess C. Scott, The Intern
I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass. — Richelle Mead, Blood Promise
Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and I’ll stop my half-assed church-going ways. You got me past a pack of Strigo — Richelle Mead, Blood Promise
I am ever a gentle maiden," she shouted. "Damn if I'm not. — Julie Garwood, Honor's Splendour
His gaze slid over me like a veil of fire. He could ignite my deepest desires with a single glance. I decided right then — Darynda Jones, Second Grave on the Left
Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all. — Shannon L. Alder
It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the n — Don DeLillo
A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into — Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini
Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would onl — Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. — Neil Gaiman
I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo — Roman Payne
A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should some — Kevin Hood, Becoming Jane