#novel

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn. ↗

— Graham Greene

#away #careful #economy #housewife #like

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#based #comedies #different #experience #experiences

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#good #makes #novels #sentiments

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#great #novels #true

Only in a novel are all things given full play. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#full #given #novel #only #play

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#easier #generally #good #heroes #novelists

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#illusion #lost #novel #title

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#because #embarrassed #i #novels #religion

I've never abandoned the novel. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#i #never #novel

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime. ↗