492 Quotes About Novels

He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed.

لو تدري لذة أن تمشي في شارع مرفوع الرأس ، أن تقابل أيّ شخص بسيط أو هام جداً، دون أن تشعر بالخجل.هناك من لا يستطيع اليوم أن يمشي خطوتين على قدميه في الشارع ، بعدما كانت كلّ الشوارع محجوزة له . وكان يعبرها في موكب من السيارات الرسمية

i love purple and blue!!!!!

A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.

ذالك النوع من القصص التى فى إعتقادى برغم عدم ثقافتى ,لم تعد تبهر احداً بعد ان اصبح الحب روتينا يوميا يمارسه حتى المتسولين فى الشارع .

I lived through those books, songs, television shows, and movies - the way the characters talked, looked, acted. I thought that could translate over into reality, that I could make their world my world. I wanted so badly to run away from my life. But you can't bury yourself in other people's pages and scenes. You aren't David Copperfield or Tom Sawyer. Those love songs on the radio might speak to you, but they're not about you or the person you pine for. Life is not a John Hughes film.

Mental Note #50: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, even though it most desperately wants to. - Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman

There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.

Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not just for entertaining us, although that would be enough.