Novel – Quotes

I want to write

I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly. Gao Xingjian

I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher’s desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better. Gail Godwin

I have died and

I have died and gone to the land of bad novels. Gail Carriger

A Complicated Kindness is

A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented writer. Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Few novels truly deserve

Few novels truly deserve the description ‘rollicking’ in the way Mary Novik’s Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-fashioned story-telling. Novik lures her readers into the streets of a bawdy seventeenth-century London with a nudge and a wink and keeps them there with her infectious love of detail … Read more

We are not quite

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works Gabrielle Zevin

The words you can’t

The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels. The analogy … Read more

I don’t know who

I don’t know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it’s true. We aren’t satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I can’t think of

I can’t think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Most critics don’t realize

Most critics don’t realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves. Gabriel Garcia Marquez