492 Quotes About Novels

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

Novels and stories give people the chance to experience countless lives.

Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name."(Discussion at Woodruff Auditorium in Lawrence, KS; October 7, 2005.)

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.The day you die.

Mais celui qui ne se précipite pas dehors à six heures et demie du matin pour affronter la nature et qui brasse de l'air à longueur de journée ne vaut pas un fifrelin à mes yeux, même s'il est riche à millions.

My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.

When I die I hope it may be said:'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'.

The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg.