Novel Quotes by Anna Quindlen

When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of…

— Anna Quindlen

The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living…

— Anna Quindlen

I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had…

— Anna Quindlen

I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star; are they a troll? Are they someone…

— Anna Quindlen

I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their…

— Anna Quindlen

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

— Anna Quindlen

Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go,…

— Anna Quindlen

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

— Anna Quindlen

[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their…

— Anna Quindlen

London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences;…

— Anna Quindlen

I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had…

— Anna Quindlen

I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to…

— Anna Quindlen

You can get rid of the column. It's a little like staying at a hotel; you get used to the shape of…

— Anna Quindlen

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird…

— Anna Quindlen

“Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird…

— Anna Quindlen

Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so…

— Anna Quindlen

What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do…

— Anna Quindlen