Quotes by Novel almost all novels are love stories. George Sand love-story novel stories I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel. Gloria Vanderbilt erotic novel years Writing a novel is agony. George Orwell agony novel writing It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing. George Bernard Shaw publishing clear novel I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel. Graeme Simsion screenplays novel writing I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven. Grace Paley seven pages novel Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me. Graham Swift novel months years I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels Guillermo Cabrera Infante novel calling book I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people. Guy Gavriel Kay novel people interesting For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food. Hallie Ephron novel kind comfort Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers. Hannah More succeed novel world Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets Hans Joachim Schellnhuber transformation transition novel I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head. Gustave Flaubert sentences novel suffering In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury. Harlan Coben novel coincidence real Southern lawyers don't read novels much. Harper Lee lawyer novel southern There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas. Heinrich Mann novel way ideas People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love. Helen Fisher sitcom novel people When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer. Henning Mankell lists novel answers Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose). Haruki Murakami novel cat writing A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be. Hermann Broch kitsch novel world «345678910111213»