Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of…

“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. Also,…

— E. Lockhart

“We are both astonishments, the closest thing in the known universe to a miracle”

— John Green

“When no one else is around, we open ourselves to the quieter astonishments that enormity can offer.”

— David Levithan

“Who can say what astonishments are hidden inside the most mundane being?”

— Kate DiCamillo

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

— James McBride

I've always wanted to write an early reader. When I wrote my first novel, my goal was to make it an early reader, but…

— Grace Lin

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was…

— William Nicholson

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

— John Green

Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a…

— Matt Groening

I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted…

— J. K. Rowling

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

— Michael Connelly

I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I…

— Jonathan Dee

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

— Howard Gordon

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do…

— Patricia MacLachlan