492 Quotes About Novels
- Author Cassandra Clare
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I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said."And what is that?""They are not true.
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- Author Mira Lyn Kelly
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Life is'nt about getting everything you want the instant you want it.Some thing are worth waiting for.
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- Author Michael Ondaatje
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Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.
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- Author Julian Barnes
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What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths.
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- Author Ralph Ellison
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Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.
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- Author I.R. Shankar
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If the shining sun blinds the eye,it makes sense. But to be blinded by gold and silver!
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- Author Michael Ondaatje
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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
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- Author Martin Amis
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I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to make nuanced judgments. And really to just make the planet look a bit richer when you go out into the street.
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- Author Jane Austen
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And she did what nobody thought of doing... she consulted Anne.
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