Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
William Shakespeare
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton
Our thinking is that many subclasses of depression might be associated with lower levels of P11 on the one hand, and that raising either the level or the functionality of the P11 would be a novel way of developing antidepressants.
Paul Greengard
They just don't get to that point of thinking. I guess it's too novel for them in some ways.
Marco Gonzalez
It's a validation that what we're doing is novel. And especially since it's financing that's taken place after we've gotten the product out to market, it's a validation that we've executed well and that people who bought the product have embraced it.
Jason Krikorian
There is a defined movement in industry to integrate dissimilar scientific fields in order to produce novel next-generation products.
Nick Hammond
I never intended to do this movie as a documentary-style version of the novel. It really is a fable.
Rob Marshall
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
Ronald Blythe
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
Henry James
To be a classic, a novel should be original.
Ruth Rendell
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
Russel Lynes
Unlike almost every other novel, I wrote Larks for myself, meaning that it was essentially done when I first showed it to an editor.
Robert Reed
It's like watching an unbelievable movie or novel unfold.
Ray Anderson
By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
Carlos Fuentes
One vision is that, if it worked well, we could have a much larger fund in the future. This is a building block for something quite novel and radical, which could change humanitarian financing.
Pelle Enarsson
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
Mary Mccarthy
Nabokov manipulates the reader into really experiencing this wild desire, and you forget that [Humbert Humbert] is lusting after young girls. After finishing the novel, I felt like I'd just eaten an entire box of candy.
Ashley Morrison
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
Anne Tyler
This is a novel study, and although the results seem disappointing to some, we see points of encouragement.
Dr. Ross Prentice
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knowswhat they are.
William Somerset Maugham
Reading a novel is altogether different from reading a newspaper, but it's all language. If you go to a concert, you have some kind of reaction to it. If the newspaper is Chinese, you can't understand it. But if you hear something by a Chinese composer, if it's playful, for instance, you understand.
George Perle
I didn't envy the judges their task this year. Obviously the novel is far from dead.
John Banville
This is novel. I've never heard of anything like it, just for pets. I just stumbled upon it by accident, but I'm glad I did. I think it's great. I'm a dog lover and an avid music lover.
Debby Reilly
It's such a novel way of treating an addiction because it's not targeting any part of the brain. It's targeting the molecule itself.
Dorothy K. Hatsukami
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
Robert Hughes
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
Daphne du Maurier
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel.
Jane Smiley
I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel - Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.
Charles Stuart Calverley
Genes are important because they are the blueprints for proteins, but proteins are where the action is in human life and health. This ability to find links between sets of proteins involved in different genetic disorders offers a novel approach for more rapidly identifying new candidate genes involved in human diseases.
Akhilesh Pandey
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
Edith Wharton
The audience can expect a very well-crafted and heartfelt retelling of a novel. It's sentimental and moving.
James Tucker
It's fundamentally novel, difficult to set up and not something you can bill extra for.
William Hrushesky
By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
Walter Gilbert
Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.
David Thewlis
A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.
Julian Green
The company also has the objective of commercializing novel biotechnology instrumentation and the advancement of biotechnology manufacturing techniques.
Justin Swick
The novel aspect is that it's about everyday life in a time of great historical import.
Bruno Heller
A dutch novel is like a lame coitus.
Annie M.g. Schmidt
My feeling is we are doing something new here. We are building a collaborative effort that will make a great deal of copyrighted material available in a way that's acceptable to the creators. That is novel.
David Mandelbrot
It's a story that belongs in the movies or a novel.
John Fitzgibbons
This is a novel concept as far as a cause for obesity. If these viruses are contributing to obesity, as we get to the point of developing a vaccine, there may be a way to help combat the obesity epidemic.
Leah Whigham
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.
Jonathan Miller
The novel really has nothing to do with the piece, but the title just fit.
Chad Langford
Like many beginning writers, I had to make the difficult leap from short stories to learning the craft and form of a novel.
John Dalton
That was a very sophisticated attack; the nature of it was novel.
Tom Leighton
We tried to figure out something a little novel on the Internet. No one else has it.
Robert Cohen
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen
It started out very innocently for us, ... In the first place, you don't imagine you're ever really going to sell the novel to anyone or really sell the screenplay to anyone.
Mark Spragg
Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.
Jane Smiley
That's how you incorporate research into a novel.
Blythe Brown
The Outsiders: The Complete Novel.
Francis Ford Coppola
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
Vita Sackville west
I couldn't pass up the chance to work with someone who just came from putting people on the moon. Low energized the place with a lot of novel ideas.
David Haviland
Well, good luck to you, kid! I'm going to write the Great Australian Novel.
Patrick White
It's not novel; it's bizarre.
Claire Ebel
I knew as I was writing "City of Bones" that this had to be the end of him as a cop and possibly even a character. But the bottom-line feeling when I was finished with that novel was that there was more I could do with Harry, things that would keep me plugged in and interested.
Michael Connelly
Although the use of Doppler technology isn't new, the novel aspect of our vein finder is the system's design, which makes it both portable and economical.
Peter Rogers
A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.
Nicholas Meyer
It was very scary to take on a novel that was so loved by so many.
Rob Marshall
The reader should expect and demand even more of a short story than of a novel. It should draw us in very quickly indeed.
Michel Faber
To us, it's novel. In Illinois (where we are from), this would not sell. They don't like this style.
Nancy Barr
It wasn't done on politics. We got it because we had such a novel idea and also boats are pretty cool.
Stephen Von Vogt
I have this pet peeve which is when I read a novel I don't want to hit page 200 and have to go back to the beginning to figure out which character is which.
Carl Hiaasen
There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.
Heinrich Mann
The novel we sit down to write, and the one we end up writing may be very different, just as the Jesus we grasp and the Jesus who grasps us may also differ.
Madeleine L'Engle
My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.
Donald Mckay
Using a compound to promote inclusions is a novel therapeutic approach.
Ruth Bodner
If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.
Philip Greenspun
He tells me there'll be no sex in it, and I expect there won't. It's a very moral novel about life today.
Brian Mcmaster
This would be an absolutely novel treatment, the first ever with potential to repair a traumatically damaged brain.
James Baumgartner
If we extract the rules of how these neural networks are doing computations like pattern recognition we can apply that to create novel computing systems.
Thomas Demarse
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Dorothy Parker
To celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth in 2008 we are looking at a wide range of different activities and one of those is a new adult Bond novel.
Ian Fleming
Companies are willing to pay a lot for novel products that have the potential for a strong franchise.
Linda Miller
August's work is like reading a rich novel.
Anthony Chisholm
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Irwin Shaw
I don't look for anyone to say this is a great novel, although I do think it's a fine, fun read. But what I think is most interesting is that the character of Annie is so clearly a portrait of Brando and that so much of him gets into it.
David Thomson
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Lucy Ellman
I think the novel, the story and the characters are quite universal.
Chris Weitz
I'm excited just to start my new novel.
Brad Meltzer
I don't regard it as a historical novel, I regard it as a novel of now, which just happens to be set when it is set.
Julian Barnes
I don't think it is a novel. I still think it's a memoir.
James Frey
The genius of the (original) novel is they were the mother and father of what Atlanta was going to become, ... Would I have written a better novel than Margaret Mitchell? Hell no.
Pat Conroy
They were simply building blocks. It's as if someone built a novel house and then claimed invention of hammers and doors and nails.
Daniel Furniss
It's funny - writing the afterword required a lot of digging and research, and was ultimately harder than editing the actual novel.
David Thomson
It is the first Spanish novel my beginning students have read.
Rodrigo Hurtado
Dickens loved the idea of a cliff-hanger and delivered the novel in instalments. I have an idea he would have loved television drama.
John Batchelor
How did I know this? I could see his lips moving. At one point, he screwed up his courage and asked me what I did for a living. I closed my notes and took out a novel.
Dianne Daniels
It will be pretty novel for our community.
Bryan Wiedmeier
It's a completely novel virus. Nobody has ever had it before, so when you come in contact with it, you get sick.
Chuck Hammer
Lowering the bar creates a novel theory of impeachment, ... It would permanently weaken the presidency.
Abbe Lowell
So he gets on the witness stand and comes up with all the filler needed to tell the story, a good novel.
Darren Lamarca
Here, we have a novel neural pathway mediating the regulatory actions of sex steroids.
Lance Kriegsfeld
Humans have always been attacked by novel pathogens. This process has been going on for millennia. But it does seem to be happening very fast in these modern times.
Mark Woolhouse
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
Gloria Naylor
Lipstick Jungle: A Novel.
Candace Bushnell
We were writing historical conjecture, and Mr. Brown was writing a novel.
Michael Baigent
The Dallas Children's Theatre have put together an incredible play based on the funny novel.
Richard Baxter
Depicting it as a realm of death in her phantasmagorical novel, 'Die Kinder der Toten.'
Elfriede Jelinek
I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.
Elizabeth George
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