Novel Quotes
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“The novel is dead. As dead as alchemy.”
“When I want to read a novel, I write one.”
“You can't write a novel without sentences.”
“All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.”
“In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust”
“Novels aren't about heroes. They're about us.”
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“Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.”
“A good novel tells us about its hero. A bad novel tells us about the author.”
“In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.”
“The novel belongs to the category of natural poetry - the allegory to that of the artificial.”
“I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.””
“Axiom: Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.”
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
“[on an unnamed book] This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.””
“I am no novel reader – I seldom look into novels - Do not imagine that I often read novels - It is only very well for a novel.”
“Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.”
“I believed the novel to be a messy expression of that mysterious banality ‘the creative process’- not unlike life, I suppose.”