THE VACATIONERS: A NOVEL

Vacations are designed to refresh the outlook of everyone. No matter how tired they may be when they return to work, vacationers have been…

— Bobby Fischer

“The customers, mostly well-to-do vacationers with little knowledge of turquoise, were using a standard principle—a stereotype—to guide their buying: “expensive = good.”

— Robert B. Cialdini

“Or Dragos paid the other vacationers to change their plans. She paused to listen to her internal radar. Did she feel funny about that?…

— Thea Harrison

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not…

— Anonymous

“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true…

— Anonymous

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

— Anonymous

What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy…

— Anonymous

No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.

— Anonymous

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

— Haruki Murakami

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what…

— Martin Amis

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea…

— John Green

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I…

— Nathalie Sarraute

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

“Holy hell, Trev! What kind of move was that?” Trevor leaned over her with a big smile on his face. “You really thought I…

— Cecilia Aubrey & Chris Almeida

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

— Anna Quindlen