492 Quotes About Novels

Novel-writing has in one respect an affinity to the drama—that time and distance are required to soften for use the harsher features that may be exhibited from real life; that it was almost impossible to bring forward events without touching on their causes; and that any tendency to political discussion, however liberal or applicable, was not to be tolerated in a sort of work which people took up with no other design than to be amused at the least possible expence of thought.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

Try everything; listen to everyone. Follow no one. You are your own story guru!

With the right tools, you can write anything ...

To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write.

However one must ask not just, is it amusing, is it exciting, but is it a work of art?

Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.