#novel

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#novelist #science-fiction #humor

I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#any #because #fiction #i #i do

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics. ↗

— Bille August

#morals #novel #penetrating #study

Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#chinese #cox #designs #four #good

I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama. ↗

— Tom Baker

#good #good drama #i #interested #looking

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. ↗

— Thomas Griffith

#analyzed #anticipated #interest #new #news

Novels are longer than life. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#longer #novels #than

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. ↗

— John Barth

#certain #except #god #novelist #realist

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#admire #again #alice #ask #i

I wrote the worst novel ever. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#i #novel #worst #wrote