Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old novel quotes, novel sayings, and novel proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.Umberto Eco
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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.Umberto Eco
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In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.J. K. Rowling
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A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.Robert Sheckley
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An old novel has a history of its own.Alexander Smith
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Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.Milan Kundera
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.W. Somerset Maugham
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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.David Herbert Lawrence
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.Henri B. Stendhal
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Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.Oliver Goldsmith
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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.Anne Tyler
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A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.Paula Fox
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A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.Dawn Powell
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A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.Fyodor Dostoevsky
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When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.Philipp Meyer
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Novels are make-believe and play for adults.Mohsin Hamid
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Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.Mohsin Hamid
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A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.E. M. Forster
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Writing a novel is agony.George Orwell
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Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.George Orwell
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Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.Jane Smiley
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To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.Virginia Woolf
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Novel writing is solitary work.Mohsin Hamid
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A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.Thomas Hardy
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If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.Mordecai Richler
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When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.Daniel Craig
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Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.Penelope Lively
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In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.Howard Gordon
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.Jorge Luis Borges