#novel

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody. ↗

— Peter Bichsel

#i #i am #knew #nobody #novel

Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#jonathan #novels #out #put #shatner

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#become #bestseller #books #del #did

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel. ↗

— James Buchan

#admirable #british #features #foreign #novelists

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. ↗

— James Buchan

#better #better off #century #couple #ever

The stars twinkled above him brilliantly, representing all of the beautiful laws of the universe. ↗

— Keira D. Skye

#young-adult-fiction #young-adult-novels #young-adult-romance #beauty

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#emotional #emotional truth #experience #novel #rather

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#history #love #love is #marriage #more

I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven. ↗

— Stephen Collins

#draft #hard #heaven #i #new

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#although #antiquated #begun #course #had