#novel

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

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about! ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#also #because #case #country #history

You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#began #go #impact #mad #might

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

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel. ↗

— Joan Didion

#novel #physical #physical strength #strength #sure

I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one. ↗

— Diane Duane

#may #me #more #new #novel

I made up my mind right then what I really wanted in my life. It was comfort of a home and a family. But more than that, I wanted love. I wanted love to surround me. I wanted to swim in it. I wanted to hold it in my hand like heated sand and pour it through my fingers so it covered my feet. I wanted to taste it, I wanted to smell it. I wanted to wrap myself up in it like a blanket and stay safe and warm inside of it forever. And I wanted to give it. I wanted to drown people in it. I wanted to love with all my heart and be loved just as much in return. ↗

— Melodie Ramone

#love #novel-quote #family

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#great #mentioned #mexican #mexico #novels