Top Novel Quotes
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
Alan Paton
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
Ted Rall
I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.
Poppy Z. Brite
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.
Sergio Aragones
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Jose Saramago
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
Alan Paton 
73% of people like this quote
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
Ted Rall
64% of people like this quote
I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.
Poppy Z. Brite
63% of people like this quote
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.
Sergio Aragones
63% of people like this quote
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Jose Saramago
61% of people like this quote
I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
Eugenio Montale
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No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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