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Novels Quotes

Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day in the street, but I never thought before to wonder how they got mad. Perhaps I should go wandering on lonely moors and barren shores. That is always a popular place for lunatics - in novels and plays at any rate. Perhaps wild England will make me mad Picture Quote #1

Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married Picture Quote #1

I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read - books about people and things that matter, books about life and death Picture Quote #1

And the world around me was nothing if not an infinity of distractions: cute girls, novels and comic books, my budding record collection, neighborhood boys whistling from the playground under my window, beckoning me to a soccer game Picture Quote #1

Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics Picture Quote #1

Foolish people laugh at those readers a century ago who wept over the novels of dickens. Is it a sign of superior intellect to read anything and everything unmoved, in a grey, unfeeling limbo? Picture Quote #1

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When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt Picture Quote #1

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different Picture Quote #1

I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me Picture Quote #1

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels Picture Quote #1

Those huge novels from North America are not the product of diligence; hard labour would refine and clarify them Picture Quote #1

Life is sometimes novel - shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life - shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality Picture Quote #1

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We read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the actual world seems to be a more treacherous place Picture Quote #1

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don't like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don't like it Picture Quote #1

I read Parker's Spenser series in college. When it comes to detective novels, 90 percent of us admit he's an influence, and the rest of us lie about it Picture Quote #1

It is quite possible - overwhelmingly probable, one might guess - that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology Picture Quote #1

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don't care to know any more Picture Quote #1

Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it Picture Quote #1

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I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays Picture Quote #1

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside Picture Quote #1

We all knew that you'd eventually end up with Macallan. I guess I should be offended, but maybe I read too many romance novels to no want to cheer for the two best friends Picture Quote #1

It was not clear how it would end. In nineteenth century novels, they get married. In twentieth century novels, they get divorced. Can you have an ending in which they do neither? Picture Quote #1

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century Picture Quote #1

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some God comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand a year and a title Picture Quote #1

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To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods Picture Quote #1

He has described in precise, measured words the beautiful desolation he feels at the close of novels where the message is that there is no end to human suffering, only endurance Picture Quote #1

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell Picture Quote #1

These leave-takings in novels are as disagreeable as they are in real life; not so sad, indeed, for they want the reality of sadness; but quite as perplexing, and generally less satisfactory Picture Quote #1

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing Picture Quote #1

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle Picture Quote #1

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Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day in the street, but I never thought before to wonder how they got mad. Perhaps I should go wandering on lonely moors and barren shores. That is always a popular place for lunatics - in novels and plays at any rate. Perhaps wild England will make me mad (Novels Quotes) Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married (Novels Quotes) I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read - books about people and things that matter, books about life and death (Novels Quotes) And the world around me was nothing if not an infinity of distractions: cute girls, novels and comic books, my budding record collection, neighborhood boys whistling from the playground under my window, beckoning me to a soccer game (Novels Quotes) Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics (Novels Quotes) Foolish people laugh at those readers a century ago who wept over the novels of dickens. Is it a sign of superior intellect to read anything and everything unmoved, in a grey, unfeeling limbo? (Novels Quotes) When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt (Novels Quotes) I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different (Novels Quotes) I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me (Novels Quotes) I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels (Novels Quotes) Those huge novels from North America are not the product of diligence; hard labour would refine and clarify them (Novels Quotes) Life is sometimes novel - shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life - shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality (Novels Quotes) We read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the actual world seems to be a more treacherous place (Novels Quotes) Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don't like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don't like it (Novels Quotes) I read Parker's Spenser series in college. When it comes to detective novels, 90 percent of us admit he's an influence, and the rest of us lie about it (Novels Quotes) It is quite possible - overwhelmingly probable, one might guess - that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology (Novels Quotes) Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don't care to know any more (Novels Quotes) Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it (Novels Quotes) I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays (Novels Quotes) Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside (Novels Quotes) We all knew that you'd eventually end up with Macallan. I guess I should be offended, but maybe I read too many romance novels to no want to cheer for the two best friends (Novels Quotes) It was not clear how it would end. In nineteenth century novels, they get married. In twentieth century novels, they get divorced. Can you have an ending in which they do neither? (Novels Quotes) Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century (Novels Quotes) But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some God comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand a year and a title (Novels Quotes) To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods (Novels Quotes) He has described in precise, measured words the beautiful desolation he feels at the close of novels where the message is that there is no end to human suffering, only endurance (Novels Quotes) Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell (Novels Quotes) These leave-takings in novels are as disagreeable as they are in real life; not so sad, indeed, for they want the reality of sadness; but quite as perplexing, and generally less satisfactory (Novels Quotes) Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing (Novels Quotes) We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle (Novels Quotes)

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