Best Novel Quotes:

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

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Stupid, Reading For Pleasure, Reading Novels

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

- George Orwell

topic: April, Cold, Clock, Dystopia, Great Literature

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Inspirational, Time, Powerful, Jazz Age, Great Literature

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

- Charles Dickens

source: A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

topic: Spring, Winter, Light, Incredulity, Great Literature

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

- Jane Austen

topic: Daughter, Men, Views, Great Literature, Good Fortune

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.

- Joyce Carol Oates

topic: Night, Scott Fitzgerald, Fables, Best Novel, Tender Is The Night

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.

- Andrew X. Pham

topic: War, Heart, Men, Best Novel

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.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Writing, Goal, Made, Best Novel

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

- Jonathan Messinger

topic: Awards, Years, Easy, Bonsai, Chileans

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.

- Harold Bloom

topic: Wise, Book, Reading, Middlemarch, Rebecca

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.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

topic: Writing, Heart, Thinking, Best Novel