#novel

Love is the most beautiful thing that can happen to someone. No one can explain that feeling and desires engrossing a person preparing to give their heart to someone. ↗

— Natalie Ansard

#love-novel #love-story #beauty

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#atoms #belief #contingent #forces #heart

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#again #another #fiction #going #i

If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#experience #had #i #i can #killed

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#excellent #him #journalist #novel #place

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#being #game #i #machines #novel

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#concludes #detective #entire #novel #run

I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#fashionable #few #i #ladies #last

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#good #good idea #idea #into #latest

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions. ↗

— David Mamet

#inappropriate #influenced #job #novel #opinion