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Sometimes, if you close your eyes and keep still, you can be invisible. Ostriches know this." - Constantine
— Jamie Delano
I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.
— Sarah Dessen
One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.
— Andrew Gross
Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers.
— Luke Taylor
After all it was for one justice which is short..., but the journey up to this justice was very long.
(Red 2008 Film) — Deyth Banger
(Red 2008 Film) — Deyth Banger
Good travel books are novels at heart.
— Jonathan Raban
My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.
— Harper Lee
Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.
— Italo Calvino
Clearly she knew that between book lovers, a novel is not a novel is not a novel. It's a symbol, an offering
and sometimes a test — Sara Nelson
and sometimes a test — Sara Nelson
A Memory Is Better Than A Phony!
— Latif Mercado
To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.
— Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Love is the connection between souls synchronized through heart beats.
Quote from my upcoming book 'Always Be MINE — Neha Daraad
Quote from my upcoming book 'Always Be MINE — Neha Daraad
Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.
— Sherry Thomas
Isn't breaking a supervillian out of jail a little ... much?
— Kirstin Van Dyke
The Airwitch had gone from reading nothing in his life to never stopping, buying every novel or history book he could get his hands on.
— Susan Dennard
Do not judge a book by its price!
— Claire Hamelin Manning
They did it quite a lot after that first encounter" ... when Jill remembers first meeting the dashing Baron.
— Lisa McKnight
Just because something isn't good doesn't mean it's bad.
— Rebecca McNutt
When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.
— Anna Quindlen
For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.
— Kate DiCamillo
Let me in, Emily, and I swear to you that you'll never regret it.
Ethan Sterling in Private Emotions — Elize Amornette
Ethan Sterling in Private Emotions — Elize Amornette
Focus. She's Maddie. Your friend. Would you eyeball Keith or Dane's butt like that? ~ Zach
— Monique DeVere
Death is the Inevitable Price We Must Pay.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.
— Dennis R. Miller
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Describing colors to a blind is what writing is all about.
— Viraj J. Mahajan
Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.
— Jane Gardam
- Why would the man who never takes vacations suddenly have a desire for one?
- Because I have a desire for you. — Barbara White Daille
- Because I have a desire for you. — Barbara White Daille
I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a novel.
— Bill Mumy
Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' and it's sad, gay nostalgia.
— Truman Capote
There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.
— Jon Weisman
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
— Lev Grossman
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
— Dorothy Parker
Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.
— Ian McEwan
It is too bad that most Olympians do not train as hard as the Lashkar jihadis whose main aim in life is to kill people.
— Vivek Pereira
A novel is a book with a lot of pages.
— Kathy Acker
It's getting a little chilly in here! Why don't we sit by the fireplace and I'll tell you the story of how I single handedly killed the Medina boys!
— Angel Ramon Medina
I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.
— Taiye Selasi
A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot ...
— Don DeLillo
You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium.
— Adrian Tomine
My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
— Kate Thompson
Please read this [book] so I'll have someone to talk about it with? I'll get you cigarettes.
— Fiona Staples
And then he was gone. Leaving nothing but the swish of the front door, and a mountain of possibilities in his wake.
— Stacie Hammond
Goodbyes are not forever. They are always partnered with see you again.
— Mathilda Maldita
A writer is a person who writes.
Actually, it was John Braine's quote in his book HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL. But I use it all the time — Andrew Puckett
Actually, it was John Braine's quote in his book HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL. But I use it all the time — Andrew Puckett
Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.
— Sarah Dessen
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
— Umberto Eco
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children
— L. Frank Baum
I'd much prefer my books to shoes ... In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.
— Nathan Englander
We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
A book is either autobiography or a novel.
— Imre Kertesz
My Name Is Latif Mercado, And I Am... A Workaholic!
— Latif Mercado
I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.
— Louis Sachar
People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them.
— Henry Mosquera
To standing in the bow wind with no charted course."
Clay Mitchell, "Half-Past Eternity" book II "Eterna". — Clay Mitchell
Clay Mitchell, "Half-Past Eternity" book II "Eterna". — Clay Mitchell
Books are an extension of our imagination
— Danny Saunders
A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.
— Ned Vizzini
I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.
— Steven Spielberg
A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
— Hilary Mantel
My life is an open book looking for chapters of love to fill my lonely pages.
-Michelle Carithers
read more A Daughter's Worth-A Novel — Michelle Carithers
-Michelle Carithers
read more A Daughter's Worth-A Novel — Michelle Carithers
Our original idea was to write a book titled Fifty Shades of the Hunger Games, by J.K. Rowling with Stephen King: A John Grisham Novel.
— Dave Barry
Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I don't think I was strong in life. Now it seems like I loved every moment, that
every breath was charmed and crisp. — Kendare Blake
every breath was charmed and crisp. — Kendare Blake
That's the exciting part about capitalism. It's like surfing, you have to catch the wave. - Martin Peter (aka Vermin Gobsmack)
— Jamie Delano
We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.
— Kathryn Joyce
I firmly believe that if you can't fool all of the people all of the time you should start breeding them for stupidity. - Weisshaupt
— Dave Sim
A great book increases my heartbeat as if I'm prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths.
— Carmen DeSousa
I just want you, to be mine, forever. I want a piece of you no one else has ever had, and I want you to own my heart forever.
— Ashley Beale
I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's a nice change of pace each time.
— John Boyne
Reading is a bridge from misery to hope.
— Rebecca VanDeMark
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
— Charles Stross
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
— Lord Chesterfield
Read my book and you shall know thee
— Oscar Sanders
To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can't really multitask reading a book.
— Jonathan Franzen
The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.
— Elizabeth Scott
So? I know lots of beautiful women. Nova wanted to chase ... I merely obliged her by running.
— D.D. Chant
I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting.
— Damon Galgut
I Don't Waste My Time Doing Crosswords, As My Life Is The Only Puzzle I Care To Resolve!
— Latif Mercado
'Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that moment on.
— Jim Rash
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.
— Elie Wiesel
She was not the still quiet type. Aphrodites never are.
— Lenora Henson
Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!
— Lillian R. Melendez
Just do it. Now.
— M. Yeats
But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It's not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book. It is the book of America.
— Robert Stone
I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.
— Mac Barnett
I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.
— Rachel Kushner
You don't get one chance at life but many over one lifetime.
— Elize Amornette