The Novel Quotes

Whatever’s eating at you, let it go. Emotion leads to poor decisions. Poor decisions lead to scrutiny. Scrutiny is our greatest threat.

He downs the contents of his glass in a single gulp and, looking at Simon, adds: “This is as amusing as a novel.

In her past were sweet passages, in her future rosy hopes.

He did not yet known how many commenced lefe-romances are doomed never to get beyond the first, or at most the second chapter.

There are empty spaces that must be respected – those often long periods when a person can’t see the pictures or find the words and needs to be left alone.

If you need philosophy and you're waiting on the gas chamber, stick to Socrates. At least he had a sense of humor.

A fugitive on the run with a plan for the future is the definition of hubris.

The problem with love is that there is so much of it to give." King Tommy

A good novel can be a doorstop to despair.

Reading a great novel gives the same feeling you have when you fall in love.

As far as I can tell, a young-adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read.

Mark Twin

In a novel, you'll find yourself in a world of possibilities. You'll find shelter there.

A novel is a writer's rant disguised as entertainment...

If we can accept the laws of the universe, the ebb and flow of joy and tragedy, then we have everything we need to embrace our true freedom.

They aren't capable of doing this... look their thoughts, look how they run, look their faces... So far this tells everything about them, ...(Salem's Lot)

It’s good to go off and write a novel, but don’t stop doing writing practice.

The Intellectual Transcending Equation In Life:Occurrence Plus Perception Minus MaterialisticReasoning Divided By Nothing Equals SpiritualProgression, With A Remainder Of Blessings.

Her face was the best of Raquel Welch and Christy Brinkley combined. All atop a curvaceous body that would make Rubens drop his paintbrush."-Adam W. Jones, Fate Ball

And so there was a fundamental scepticism about the ability of any institution, even one like the novel, to tell us anything true.

We are in the Dark to one another's Purposes and Intendments, and there are a thousand Intrigues in our little Matters, which will not presently confess their Design, even to sagacious Inquisitors...

Dare I ask Mao and his Communist Party?I fear my throat will be cut into two pieces.In the name of revolution, for thought crimes, Such questions can turn me to ashes.

It's terrific, Clare, " Henry says, and we stare at each other and I think, "Don't leave me.

Commercial fiction writing – where my bread is buttered – is fairly straightforward. The writing is simply efficiency and story. The more you have of one the less you need of the other.

Life isn't fair, " comes the voice of Nana. She has told me that a thousand times. "What matters is how you handle it." I'm going to handle it by winning.

Doubt you’d find anyone as dashingly charming as me

It flashed as a guiding light whilstDuran was lost in his dreams

Never once did I think you were less than a good person.

Good humour was miles behind a second cup of morning tea. It was too early for nonsense.

In this otherworldly moment I am profoundly grateful to be here, to be alone, to experience this thing that no one has ever experienced and that no one else ever will.

My Greatest Failures has been My Greatest Success~

Every life contains a novel.

Love is always about losing something

The virtuous are among the the weakest and quickest to sin

when you walk the path of revenge, know that someone will always follow your trail

Discourses, which are mostly wrapped in spurious religious and patriotic ideologies that ignite the enthusiasm of the ignorant masses

The threat of war hung on the air like a thick fog and it blinded him until he could see nothing beyond the haze. Even the stars grew faint.

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

The woman you thought you talked to was like one out of my novels, nothing more than a dream, and illusion I conjured to feel better. That’s all I ever will be, unable to be that woman in real life.

Write what you want to write and would like to read, not for any invisible audience. Your readers will find you.

The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor.

Ironically, in life, you sacrifice everything you love in the name of love"~ the motto of the romance novel Cupcakes and Cologne.

I don’t want what we’re doing to just end up as notes for a novel.

Now call your old lady and tell her to come out here. Go ahead and don't try no funny stuff.

Oh, readers. If only you knew what we've gone through for you.

The masks. that men have as faces, the outward shells they hold up for others to see while their minds shift in hidden directions" Discard 2

The masks. that men have as faces, the outward shells they hold up for others to see while their minds shift in hidden directions." Discard 2

The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you.

The masks. that men have as faces, the outward shells they hold up for others to see while their minds shift in hidden directions. Discard 2

Underneath the groundyou can't hear a soundnot even the sweet falling rainyou might forget about tomorrowforget about the swallowsbut they won't forget youthey won't forget you