Sentence examples for novel needs from inspiring English sources

What this novel needs is a heroine.

The literary novel needs more tinkers and tailors, the argument goes.

Both agreed that in a multimedia world, the "antediluvian" novel needs to be invigorated by experimentation.

To say that a great novel needs reading with great attention is somewhere between a banality and an insult.

And Voldemort also repeats himself a lot, which is why each new novel needs a subsidiary villain, like Inquisitor Umbridge.

My editor, David Levithan, had maddeningly simple advice: the only thing a Y.A. novel needs is a teenage protagonist.

Formally my novel needed the presence of real poems.

The domestic novel need not be small, or tame.

It sounds odd, but a comic novel need not be particularly funny.

My novel needed to be slow-cooked… because of what I didn't know.

Both were convinced, however, that some of the presuppositions surrounding the novel needed to be swept away.