Books Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

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

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

— Ian Rankin

It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to…

— Jon McGregor

A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad,…

— Lorrie Moore

I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.

— Jennifer Egan

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular,…

— John Scott

The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of…

— Robert Walser

With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm…

— Catherine Fisher

One evening, I read David Nicholls' book 'One Day,' because our flat was a few streets down from Rankeillor Street, where the first chapter…

— Lolly Adefope

I don't very often read novels.

— Sidney Poitier

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the…

— Ann Patchett