Life Is Like A Novel Quotes

#1. Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

Sidney Sheldon

#2. I guess life is like a novel. Some of it is written by fate, some of it is written by God... but the part we are ultimately judged by is the part we write ourselves.

Lynn Johnson

#3. Life is like a novel.
Make yours the bestseller!

Suci Hidayat

#4. JACK KIRBY is also the central personage of this novel because this is not a good novel. This is a seriously mixed-up book with a central personage who never appears. The plot, like life, resolves into nothing and features emotional suffering without meaning.

Jarett Kobek

#5. The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.

Kate Forsyth

#6. I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my novel to be like a friend telling me a story
so we go off on thoughts; that's the way it is.

Tama Janowitz

#7. This, I think, is a little glimpse of what life could be like without my family. Home could be a place of laughter and love, a refuge. I'm filled with a terrifying weightlessness, like I've jumped off a cliff, but I know that if I don't look down, I'll be just fine.

Heather Demetrios

#8. For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

Haruki Murakami

#9. A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews.

Mardy Grothe

#10. Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

Julien Green

#11. Life is like authoring a novel, our choices write the chapters that decide our path, destiny, and if you're blessed, a happy ending.

Brandie Knight

#12. Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.

John Irving

#13. Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold ...

W.E.B. Du Bois

#14. There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

Anais Nin

#15. Life in this village is like that of a louse hanging on to a wrinkle in a loincloth.

Susumu Katsumata

#16. Few people in one's life ever go quite away. They turn up again like characters in a Simon Raven novel. It is as if Fate is a movie producer who cannot afford to keep introducing new characters into the script but must get as many scenes out of every actor as possible.

Stephen Fry

#17. Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well
the reason why everyone loves them
is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that.

Meg Cabot

#18. The Lord is like lightening. Startled by its appearance and momentarily blinded by the brightness of the flash, when the lightening strikes a person is either destroy or jolted to new life." Elias the Teacher

Daniel Molyneux

#19. A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#20. There is never but one pleasant side to this human life. Like the globe on which we turn, our own rapid rotation is but one day, and a part of this day cannot receive light, so that the other part will not be delivered into darkness.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#21. Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by the time I was fourteen, I found the real people around me saying and doing far more interesting things than did the imaginary book characters.

Maxine Cheshire

#22. True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do,
or to make a living they must do, it is quite frankly like breathing. Some
can breathe often and fluently, some short breaths, some a long exhale
and for many of us it is the patient steady breathing surrounding life.

Milissa R. Bailey

#23. War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.

Gertrude Stein

#24. Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.

Patrick Kavanagh

#25. Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.

Angela Young

#26. Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

Aidan Chambers

#27. Like a clock of life on which the seconds race, the page number hangs over the characters in a novel. Where is the reader who has not once lifted to it a fleeting, fearful glance?

Walter Benjamin

#28. Life is like reading a third-rate novel written overnight upside down by a crazy drunk.

You're not supposed to try to get it.

Said by E-Wan

Ji-Sang Shin

#29. I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.

Stephenie Meyer

#30. Ernest Hemingway said it best: "A novel is just like real life, with the boring parts taken out.

Lee Gimenez

#31. Life is like a friendship, eventually it will end, by conflict or God's hand"
-Sons In The Clouds

Randy Mitchell

#32. Life is like a Ferris wheel, going 'round and 'round in one direction. Some of us are lucky enough to remember each trip around." From: Yesterday - A Novel of Reincarnation

Samyann