I've never abandoned the novel.

Man, I'm here alone, without anyone talking to me. i've been abandoned, and this is once again another time to the all ready long…

— She's_gone

“The last year had been a series of wrong turns, bad choices, abandoned projects. There was the all-girl band in which she had played…

— David Nicholls

As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough…

— Mark Haddon

I know I've abandoned the Amish lifestyle, but I still keep a lot of those beliefs ... I know I've stepped outside the boundaries…

— Kate Stoltzfus

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What I strive to do is make my characters seem like real people so that the reader experiences them as people - that's something…

— Jaume Cabre

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

— Anonymous

At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple…

— Tom Rachman

Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian…

— C.J. Sansom

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

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