Top 40 Beautiful Novel Quotes

#1. Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.

Marquis De Sade

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#2. every life contains the inspiration for a beautiful novel.

Antonio Garrido

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#3. I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful movie. And they're totally different. You accept each on its own terms, and that's kind of the ideal.

Ayelet Waldman

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#4. The most beautiful novel is the one that starts with a sentence wholly unexpected by the reader who has lived through our storms and norms, and who might once have been the cause of our changing moods.

Ahlam Mosteghanemi

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#5. Love is the most beautiful thing that can happen to someone. No one can explain that feeling and desires engrossing a person preparing to give their heart to someone.

Natalie Ansard

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#6. In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.

Haruki Murakami

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#7. Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

George Eliot

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#8. Writing a novel is like pottery. Your initial draft of your story is like a lump of clay. Editing is like shaping that piece of clay into something interesting and beautiful.

Monika Pardon

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#9. You're not beautiful," he said. "Your profile said beautiful. You kind of overreached on that one.

Diane Dunning

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#10. Even the most beautiful flower, the rose," he argued, "has the thorn that makes it imperfect.

Lynetta Halat

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#11. Johnny Flora "The Spell of Zalanon" > quotable quote (edit)
"Every page of a great novel should be crafted like a beautiful melody, to linger on long after the music stops playing."
- Johnny Flora "The Spell of Zalanon

Johnny Flora

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#12. The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in half again - without losing the essence. Apply that to the swollen prose of a bulky novel and you might reveal a beautiful work.

Julianna Baggott

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#13. There can be no more beautiful spot to die in, no spot more worthy of total despair, than one's own novel.

Franz Kafka

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#14. What the novel portrays is basically the reality of Vienna today: one of the world's great cities robbed of its lifeblood, reduced to a bland provincial capital filled with beautiful old buildings.

Tom Reiss

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#15. Each time I discovered a potential link between one character's story and another's, several more connections would reveal themselves, like a beautiful, complex web spinning itself.

Richard Scarsbrook

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#16. From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from mastery of the novel and beautiful world awaiting every child comes self-confidence.

E. O. Wilson

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#17. The artist has the liberty to exaggerate, to create in his novel a world more beautiful, more simple, more consoling than ours.

Irving Stone

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#18. I was obsessed with the Canadian novel 'Anne of Green Gables'. I decided I was Anne of Green Gables. There was something that spoke to me about her, and I wanted to have her beautiful red hair.

Christina Hendricks

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#19. The creative process is beautiful and magical thing. Whether its a song, a radio story, or a novel, it all springs from the same place in the heart.

Greg Kihn

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#20. Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow ... And not fireworks, either

Jennifer Donnelly

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#21. Please don't be upset. The last thing in the world I want is to see you upset and that too with me. It's terrifying to see your beautiful eyes turn red with anger.

Vivek Pereira

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#22. Every page of a great novel should be crafted like a beautiful melody, to linger on long after the music stops playing.

Johnny Flora

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#23. What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths.

Julian Barnes

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#24. I wrote a graphic novel called 'Soul Stealer' with big, beautiful, epic artwork by Chris Shy. It grew into a trilogy.

Michael Easton

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#25. The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.

Diane Johnson

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#26. Pressed against her I can hear eternity
hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".

Craig Thompson

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#27. My solo novel 'Icons' was optioned by Alcon Entertainment, the folks who made the 'Beautiful Creatures' movie, and that's gotten as far as a script, but no news yet.

Margaret Stohl

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#28. Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

Marlene Van Niekerk

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#29. I have an idea for a new book. It's a novel about a beautiful yet sensitive author whose spirit is crushed by her domineering editor. Do you like it?

Annie Barrows

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#30. It's like people don't only look good when they look like a magazine. People can be aesthetically beautiful in the way sunsets and leaves and things are.

Laura Tims

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#31. So? I know lots of beautiful women. Nova wanted to chase ... I merely obliged her by running.

D.D. Chant

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#32. I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.

Agnes Varda

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#33. The beginning of a novel: start a subject, no matter where, and to have the desire to finish, start with very beautiful phrases.

Charles Baudelaire

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#34. Life is full of beautiful moments. Live your life to the fullest. And do what you
love.

Santonu Kumar Dhar

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#35. The heavens are too immense, too beautiful and varied, to fit into the mind of any one deity; the murmured creeds of fathers and sons are no match for the astronomer's gasp.

John Pipkin

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#36. In a typical college romance novel, this was the moment I would've been waiting for. The validation of all my shame and suffering at the hands of other men: a beautiful boy loved me. What had been done to my body didn't ruin me for Mr. Right. Zippity-fucking-doo-dah.

Leah Raeder

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#37. I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.

Ann Patchett

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#38. Above The Thunder is passionate, wise, and piercingly beautiful. Readers drawn to books with rich, memorable characters and contemporary stories will find this remarkable debut novel not only irresistible but impossible to put down.

Tony Ardizzone

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#39. As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

Karen Thompson Walker

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#40. One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.

Andrew Gross

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