(159 quotes found)
“One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.”
Gloria Naylor
“Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history”
Chamfort
“San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.”
William Saroyan
“All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.”
Milan Kundera
“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood”
William Shakespeare
“I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike”
Cyril Connolly
“F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner have fewer published novels combined than any number of contemporary novelists-Roberts, King, Koontz, Steel, etc.”
Nicholas Sparks
“A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.”
Saul Bellow
“By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.”
Carlos Fuentes
“Today's payslip has more deductions than a Sherlock Holmes novel.”
Raymond Cvikota
