Best Novel Quotes

I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.

Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in English. Mead has discovered an original and highly personal way to make herself an inhabitant both of the book and of George Eliot's imaginary city. Though I have read and taught the book these many years I find myself desiring to go back to it after reading Rebecca Mead's work.

In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it gets made or gets purchased.

Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in trying circumstances. Deeper, it is an uncannily perceptive exploration of male psychology… Pomeroy is a brave new voice capable of taking us beyond the clichés of war and its aftermath and into the secret heart of every man. This is simply the best novel I’ve read in a long time.