A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really… — Candice Accola Copy Share Image
Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels. — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
“When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is fantastic. It's volcanic and sexy and utterly unlike anything I've read before. It feels like the future… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I know some writers that have a million novel ideas, but I don't. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
The novella is at once the most elegant and demanding form: a writer must balance the looseness of a novel with the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Whatever it was that came over him that night pulled a cord—her laugh, or her surprise gasp slipping out to think he’d… — Mary J. McCoy-Dressel Copy Share Image
I read graphic novels, here and there, but I'm not a comic book guy, as much. — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
The problems you have as a novelist tend to have to do with making a living and trying to find ways to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“The gods command that there can be only one king. But I swear that I am no better than a common soldier… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success. — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
“She smiled at him like a freshman invited to the senior prom. It made my blood boil.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
Everything in a novel has to be intentional, even the things that aren't. — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time… — Maj Sjowall Copy Share Image
Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way… — Tash Aw Copy Share Image
Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel. — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
It's hard to make a living as a novelist. My first novel 'Tapping the Source' made quite a splash in Hollywood, and… — Kem Nunn Copy Share Image
It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas… — Chris Weitz Copy Share Image
For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
