Top 23 Top Novels Quotes
#1. The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.
Abdelkader El Djezairi
#2. When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?
Natalie Cole
#3. I work on my novels wherever I have a PC, and I have four or five places around the world where I do have a PC. These days you can just slip a little flash drive into your top pocket, fly for 12 hours, come to another place, plug it into a computer and you are away again.
Wilbur Smith
#4. Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.
James Buchan
#5. Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in Havana' may be his best.
Alan Furst
#6. To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price-and is a rejection of the gift of God's grace.
Dave Hunt
#7. I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.
Camille Paglia
#8. I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels.
William Monahan
#10. I tell writers not to think about writing short stories or novels. Just write one good scene. And then a novel becomes a bunch of good scenes stacked on top of each other.
Joe Hill
#11. I read a lot of the 'Pern books' growing up - basically up through 'All the Weyrs of Pern,' maybe a couple after that. As far as formative dragon influences are concerned, she's probably one of the top ones; I know I read other fantasy novels that had them, but none particularly stick in mind.
Marie Brennan
#12. Over the years you will go through seasons in which you have to learn to love a person who you didn't marry, who is something of a stranger.
Timothy Keller
#13. As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people in the audience to communicate that you're accessible and interested in them.
Simon Mainwaring
#14. In my personal opinion, Russia is no less democratic than it used to be. It is a democratic country. It is democratic enough.
Roman Abramovich
#15. To Me, The Best Part Of Success, Is The Journey!
Latif Mercado
#16. You don't get one chance at life but many over one lifetime.
Elize Amornette
#17. Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement.
Norman Jewison
#18. I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.
Analeigh Tipton
#19. Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
Italo Calvino
#20. My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play "ventriloquist", only I wasn't wearing pants.
Thom Yorke
#21. Let me in, Emily, and I swear to you that you'll never regret it.
Ethan Sterling in Private Emotions
Elize Amornette
#22. I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
Rachel Johnson
#23. It would be unthinkable to have a top-ten list of multiple narrative novels that doesn't include David Mitchell. 'Cloud Atlas' is the most obvious choice, but I have opted for Mitchell's slightly lesser known debut, 'Ghostwritten.'
Susan Barker
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