Novels Quotes

My main regret in life is that there is no MacArthur Fellowship awarded in the field of Panda Satire.

A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning.

His overactive charm poured out like a lone drainage pipe after a flash flood.

I measure my days by the number of homicidal thoughts I have. I only had two today. So it must have been good.

He had a bushy unibrow that could house a family of quail.

Recent global challenges suggest the themes in "The RISING SEDITION" foreshadow fiction becoming reality!! RT

She was the kind of woman a person could die over or kill over.

She swore she'd never turn into her P.I. father...but that was before she ran over the body.

It was not a safe thing to lead Joe into temptation

There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.

As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.

The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them.

[A] great novel will allow you to transcend the social, racial and political limitations imposed by the vicissitudes of life and to find a deep fraternity based on empathy.

Durand smiles. There is nothing behind the smile except perhaps another smile, repeating ad infinitum into the distance.'Of course, ' he says.

What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.

Christy isn’t a case, he’s a person.

The stars twinkled above him brilliantly, representing all of the beautiful laws of the universe.

Patriotism means to stand by the people, not to stand by the party.

That’s all kids want to know—that you love them.

I do tasks for the gods, usually things like tracking down rare items or taking someone safely to a destination."D'Molay the Freeman Tracker

What we can imagine we can make real

And, they would still be alive today...If they hadn't died, that is

I'm a wanderessI'm a one night standDon't belong to no cityDon't belong to no man(Note: These lyrics were inspired by Roman Payne's quote from his novel "The Wanderess".)

The pulse of New York City can be found on the bent elbows of the patrons in Pete's Tavern.

As he stretched out his legs, Siraj let out a deep sigh and smiled. I wonder what Prince Bahir’s blonde surprise will be wearing. I'm guessing it won't be a habiya.

I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife

The best plot twists are the ones you didn't expect.

...you mean you don't fit characters into a plot? excatly...

A mysterious ability, a broken promise, a life changed forever...

Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.

Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.

I have come to understand something about novels, " Tessa said."And what is that?""They are not true.

What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths.

Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep – it can't be done abru

Novels are just another kind of cross-dressing, aren't they?

Life is'nt about getting everything you want the instant you want it.Some thing are worth waiting for.

Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.

In this place called Hell novels are written by people who don't read books.

Like the roller coaster of life...novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.

On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed to leave the Les Halles Police Station after only a few hours of questioning.

Slow down to speed up. Anonymous

What the best novels and novelists do is to offer a different way of seeing.

I think after all I found a feature which is incredible and kind of mein or let's say it something which is part of my childhood in the Jack Ketchum Novels and films.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casual

Mental Note #50: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, even though it most desperately wants to. - Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.

Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not just for entertaining us, although that would be enough.

One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning.

Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of novels at all, the good and the bad.

Remember where you are and adjust yourself accordingly, not vice-versa ... otherwise, you might be toast.