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It is easier to tell people something through a novel than through boring lectures. – Author Li Chunyuan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I have to say I was a bit surprised at first, that Airport Scanner would be used to actually improve airport security, using game data for research is such a novel idea that I was thrilled to participate and be on the forefront of the research community. – Kedlin Company	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The discovery of this novel compound challenges long-held scientific beliefs and holds great promise for treating an array of menacing infections. – Kim Lewis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The novel thing in this study is that it’s not just TV, it’s other screens. – Heidi Connolly	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Without the similar research base that we have in the United States for, say, fusion energy it's unlikely to make meaningful progress, if the Japanese make progress in the next five years people might start to notice and say' Why aren't we doing that here.' Ultimately, he said, space-based solar energy is like most novel ideas. – Dr Jaffe	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I’m not saying it could never happen. I’m saying this is a pretty cutting edge, novel complaint. – Marcia Hoffman	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I'm not saying it could never happen. I'm saying this is a pretty cutting edge, novel complaint. – Marcia Hoffman	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished. – Louis-Ferdinand Céline	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people. – Gore Vidal	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. – Frank Dane	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them. – J. K. Rowling	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are. – W. Somerset Maugham	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely. – Don DeLillo	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual. – Anthony Burgess	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading. – Coleridge	added by anonymous 12 years ago
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. – G. K. Chesterton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. – Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties. – Milan Kundera, Interview on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it. – Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language. – Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart. – Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. – Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature. – Ernest Hemingway	added by anonymous 14 years ago

It is easier to tell people something through a novel than through boring lectures.

– Author Li Chunyuan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I have to say I was a bit surprised at first, that Airport Scanner would be used to actually improve airport security, using game data for research is such a novel idea that I was thrilled to participate and be on the forefront of the research community.

– Kedlin Company

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The discovery of this novel compound challenges long-held scientific beliefs and holds great promise for treating an array of menacing infections.

– Kim Lewis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The novel thing in this study is that it’s not just TV, it’s other screens.

– Heidi Connolly

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

– Dr Jaffe

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I’m not saying it could never happen. I’m saying this is a pretty cutting edge, novel complaint.

– Marcia Hoffman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I'm not saying it could never happen. I'm saying this is a pretty cutting edge, novel complaint.

– Marcia Hoffman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

– Louis-Ferdinand Céline

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.

– Gore Vidal

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

– Frank Dane

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.

– J. K. Rowling

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.

– W. Somerset Maugham

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

– Don DeLillo

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

– Anthony Burgess

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

– Coleridge

added by anonymous
12 years ago

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

– G. K. Chesterton