Novel Quotes - Page 29

• Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  People, Literature, Worried

  "Snort story" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2002.

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• If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.

  Regina Brett

  Writing, Phones, Order

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.

  Felicia Day

  Writing, Fantasy Novels, Challenges

  Interview with Robert Lloyd, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'

  Martin Filler

  Design, Firsts, Architecture

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• People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

  Helen Fisher

  People, Sitcom

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• A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

  Romola Garai

  Passion, Character, Ideas

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• My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.

  Greg Graffin

  Teacher, Class, Might

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• Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.

  Hanna Rosin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Games

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• After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Writing, Editors, Suggestions

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• I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Believe, Views, Progress

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• I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Writing, The End Of The Day, Ends

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• Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'

  Colm Toibin

  Art, Writing, Play

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• Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.

  Colm Toibin

  Men, Numbers, Views

  "This Week in Fiction: Colm Tóibín" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2013.

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• I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much the Republic of Ireland rather than the North. Even though, if I wrote a novel about the North, it might sell more.

  Colm Toibin

  Territory, Republic, Might

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• She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.

  Kate Atkinson

  Lying, Reality, Should Have

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• Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

  Lord Byron

  Men, Fiction, World

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.303

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• The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.

  Italo Calvino

  Reading, Giving, Special

  Italo Calvino (2010). “If On A Winter's Night A Traveller”, p.203, Random House

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• Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.

  George Orwell

  Book, Thinking, Hatred

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers and they are down at heel.

  Robert Walser

  Stories, Answers, Given

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• It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Historical Novels, Captivity

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• You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

  Italo Calvino

  Reading, Winter, Night

  Italo Calvino (2010). “If On A Winter's Night A Traveller”, p.3, Random House

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• I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring to readers a connection to the wonder of life. A good novel shows how life can and ought to be lived. It not only entertains but energizes and uplifts readers.

  Terry Goodkind

  Uplifting, Believe, Book

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• And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately in love with someone, without reservation or holding back, was good for the heart. For its valves and its arteries and that invisible shadow of the heart clled the soul. Falling in love was good for the soul.

  Paulette Jiles

  Falling In Love, Reading, Heart

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• Believe me, when I say; There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide. -Anon From the novel Abarat

  Clive Barker

  Believe, Two, Soul

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• Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit my lifestyle with newly arriving butcher/censors every month. Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, write to tell me of this exquisite irony.

  Ray Bradbury

  Song, Book, Reading

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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