I Would Like Novels Better Quotes

#1. She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me.

John Green

#2. The real question isn't whether you like Robert, it's whether you like yourself when you're with Robert ...

Charity Shumway

#3. I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

Werner Herzog

#4. I used to know Madison Avenue advertisers. I didn't like 'em. Bunch of jerks.

James Rosenquist

#5. You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.

William Golding

#6. The woman you thought you talked to was like one out of my novels, nothing more than a dream, and illusion I conjured to feel better. That's all I ever will be, unable to be that woman in real life.

Nicole Kiefer

#7. 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.

John Le Carre

#8. I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if they're about people the writer doesn't like very much.

Penelope Fitzgerald

#9. I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

Leon Kass

#10. I'm a Mormon, but I share your faith in the atonement of the savior, Jesus Christ. In my faith, we have a guy who gave his life for what he believed in. You don't have to believe it; I'm not asking you to. I'm asking you, "What is it that you believe? Are you willing to give your life?"

Glenn Beck

#11. There are people out there with an eye on my hard-earned cash who think that I am a pushover. I am not!

Wilbur Smith

#12. I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.

Laura Linney

#13. All the bruised lives, searching hearts ... Everyone wants a love story but few will risk what it takes to live one.

Donna Lynn Hope

#14. I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed.

Stephen King

#15. I left my novels for better times, when I could dedicate the energy and enjoy the inspiration I feel while planning them; like the most delicious cherries on a cake one left for later so they can be savored to the utmost.

Sahara Sanders

#16. I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.

Todd Solondz

#17. 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.

Umberto Eco

#18. Tenses are a way of ordering the chaos around time.

Audre Lorde

#19. I'm a workaholic, so I read everything that's out there.

Marc Blucas