492 Quotes About Novels

I agree with Kilgore Trout about realistic novels and their accumulations of nit-picking details. In Trout’s novel, The Pan-Galactic Memory Bank, the hero is on a space ship two hundred miles long and sixty-two miles in diameter. He gets a realistic novel out of the branch library in his neighborhood. He reads about sixty pages of it, and then he takes it back. The librarian asks him why he doesn’t like it, and he says to her, “I already know about human beings.

My spirit has been around far longer than my soul--I've lived several lifetimes already. And one this novel has been written, I will have lived several more.

Slow down to speed up. Anonymous

قيل يوما ما انه لا توجد بدايات حقيقية... بل مجرد نهايات مستمرة..

وتعريف كلمة بداية ايه؟.. غير ان في حاجة لسه منتهية!.. ويعني ايه أصلا كلمة بداية حقيقية؟.. هل هي من ساعة ما اتولدنا، ولا من ساعة ما القلب دق، ولا من أول أيه؟... عشان كده مينفعش نقيم البداية من أي وجهة نظر.. لأننا دايما.. بنبدأ من "النهاية"!

The battles may last for a long time, perhaps even years. There are powerful forces on both sides, and the war is important to both armies. It's not a battle of good against evil. It's a war between forces that are fighting for the balance of power, and, when that type of battle begins, it lasts longer than others-because Allah is on both sides.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

Her face was as red as her hair. “What are you doing,” she cried. Devon put a question mark next to the sentence. “Editing your paper.” What did it look like he was doing?“You’re just cutting out stuff!”“What do you think editing is?

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.