492 Quotes About Novels

Don't go chasing after the grand theme, the idea, I told my students, as if it is separate from the story itself. The idea or ideas behind the story must come to you through the experience of the novel and not as something tacked onto it.

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night.

I believe, Sebastian, that novels are more important than ever. They are more important than video recorders and record players and television because they enable us to exercise our minds. They allow us to step back and see where the history is taking us.

sama, mungkin, nantinya juga akan menjadi lalu, tanpa sebuah pasti. Tidak akan ungkit soal hati, toh nanti sakit sendiri, tinggal tunggu waktu tepat sambil minum kopi.

،الحيـاة والـموت أسمان ينـدمجان معاً في گثـيرٍ من الأوقـاتفهُنـاگ مـن يعيشـون گأنـهم موتـى وآخرون يمـوتون وهـم أحياء بداخـل مـن يحبـون..يـالها مـن حيـاة غريبـة تلگ التـي تفرض علينـا قوانينـها و تأمرنـا بالأنصيـاع دون أن تستـمع إلينا!!

Cecy, I do think it is unfair. People in novels are fainting all the time, and I never can, no matter how badly I need to.

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.

Do you want to know how to write novels? I’ll tell you the secret: start on page one and keep going, in order, until you come to the last page. Then stop.

What the best novels and novelists do is to offer a different way of seeing.