Novels Quotes

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

~ Kamand Kojouri

We need to insist on making culture out of our desire: making paintings, novels, plays and films potent and seductive and authentic enough to undermine and overwhelm the Iron Maiden.

~ Naomi Wolf

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature, people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple, it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.

~ Anna Godbersen

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

~ Novalis

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.

~ Wilkie Collins

I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography to the reader... This, for me, is a powerful argument for the value and potency of literature specifically. Movies don't demand as much from the player. Most people know this; at the end of the day you can be too beat to read but not yet too beat to watch television or listen to music.

~ Brian Christian

And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages and mischievously leave the novel tingling in our ears.

~ Azar Nafisi

I am going to build a fortress of books.Will you come inside and live with me?

~ Kamand Kojouri

It’s very silly,” she said, “but I go on with it in spite of myself. I’m afraid I’m too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can’t read it.

~ Henry James

Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

...but I was bored, I could scarcely understand them. I started to borrow novels from the circulating library, and read one after the other. But in the long run they didn't help. They presented intense lives, profound conversations, a phantom reality more appealing than my real life. So, in order to feel as if I were not real, I sometimes went...

~ Elena Ferrante

Reading sparks writing.

~ A.d. Posey

Reading opens up other pockets of the mind.

~ A.d. Posey

We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures.

~ Orhan Pamuk

Somethings worth having defy logic. They come with obstacles, challenges, battles and long periods of wandering in the dark. Your path won't make sense to your family or friends. People will weigh in with their life rules and fears, but in the end it is your life. That pull you feel is real and often your intuition. It nags at you everyday. Follow it for as far as it takes you because life is too short to dwell on indecision, while you forget to live. Take a chance because if you have a good heart God isn't going to abandon you. He will travel wherever you need to go, in order to find the missing pieces of your soul.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Thank God For Writing, As Now I Can Work Until My Last Breath!

~ Latif Mercado

You Can't Be A Hero To The World, If Your Aren't First A Hero In Your Home!

~ Latif Mercado

To Me, The Best Part Of Success, Is The Journey!

~ Latif Mercado

A Decision That Can Change Your Life Forever, Can Happen In Just One Second.

~ Latif Mercado

Attitude Is More Important Than Talent!

~ Latif Mercado

It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.

~ Sam Savage

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.

~ Criss Jami

---Sleeps through the washes of the morning's colors and the warm brilliance of sunrise. She sleeps in a world where she remembers, perfectly, every detail about her husband, this day, that sentence, another touch. She will remember it all in the deepest sleep, and lose it again the moment her eyes open and she wonders how late it must be for the sun to already be so high and then remembers, in the next instant, what happened the day before.

~ Ashley Hay

What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

My novels are set in a global space and pace. However, I have never visited most of the places. I wrote my first book in London but the story took the reader to places in Mexico, Denmark and Russia, and carefully avoided London. I access these global locations with my feet planted in front of my computer. I will use my internet connection to carefully enter the streets of a foreign city and find out how long it will take my main character to get from the airport to the city center – and if there are any shortcuts on the way. I wanted to do something new. The world is becoming a global village and we have to understand these different cultures. There is a Danish culture, an Israeli culture and so on. So if you want to go to Denmark, then read the book.

~ Enock Maregesi

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

~ Philip Larkin

Sometimes you have to walk through the fire, in order to reach your calling.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You might lose battles in your life time. However, every person that stands bravely on the side of justice, for people that have no voice, wins the true battle---Gods.

~ Shannon L. Alder

God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others.

~ Shannon L. Alder

There is no correct way to write a novel, or rather, there is only one, and that one way is to make it interesting. That is very easily said, but how do you make your writing interesting?The answer to the question is, that you write interestingly only about the things that genuinely interest you. This is an infallible rule.

~ Ted Hughes

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night.

~ David Leavitt

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

~ Sara Sheridan

I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those of 'real' life. A novelist is someone who confuses his own life with that of his characters.

~ Alain Robbe-Grillet

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

~ Robert Hughes

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?

~ Shannon L. Alder

All marriages have their bad sides, because people have weaknesses. If you live with another human being you learn to handle these weaknesses in a variety of ways. For instance, you might take the view that weaknesses are a bit like heavy pieces of furniture, and based on this you must learn to clean around them. To maintain the illusion.

~ Fredrik Backman