492 Quotes About Novels

I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul.

Besides it's not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can't you?

God is going to send you someone that will rescue you. Then one day you will rescue them in return and together your story will rescue others. He has always been a God of rescues and a maker of warriors for his grace. You only need to believe that you are part of something greater than you know.

• لا ننجح بأن نكون أسخياء مع أنفسنا إلا في اللحظات النادرة التي نحتاج فيها إلى القسوة فعلا .

إن الجهاد الحسن هو الذي نخوضه باسم أحلامنا عندما نكون شبابا .. تتفجر أحلامنا في داخلنا بكل عزيمتها ولا تنقصنا الشجاعة اطلاقاً .. لكننا لم نتعلم بعد كيفية النضال .. وحين نخلص الى تعلمها بعد جهود مضنية نكون قد فقدنا الطاقة على الكفاح عندئذ نرتد على انفسنا ونصبح ألد أعدائنا .. نتذرع قائلين أن احلامنا طفولية وعويصة على التحقيق أو أنها ثمرة جهلنا لحقائق الحياة .. فنقتل أحلامنا لأننا نخاف من خوض الجهاد الحسن

La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble à la vie."("Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.")

Novel writing, I’ve discovered, is the most liberating. You can write the narrative in the past, present, or future, and from virtually any viewpoint or philosophy, including your own. The only keeper you answer to is your own creativity. It’s total autonomy.

It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.

There is no endTo what a living worldWill demand of you.