#novel

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt. ↗

— John le Carre

#belt #better #few #get #go

I think of my novels as entertainments. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#i #i think #novels #think

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

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#author #bad #good #hero #novel

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#buddhism #buddhist #comes #created #deeply

V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion

The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance. ↗

— Hu Shih

#century #dramas #frank #glorification #great

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#how #like #made #might #novel

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#i #know #novel #oh #writing