Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Kleypas

Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will.

Vera Brittain

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Shields

My medium is prose, not the novel.

David Mitchell

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

David Quammen

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

Edmond de Goncourt

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Audrey Tautou

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

Carol Shields

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Paloma Faith

I'm not a downtrodden woman. I just won't be.