Books Quote by Alfred de Vigny

For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do…

— Eric Jerome Dickey

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

— Anonymous

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

— Jules de Goncourt

That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less than 'great.'

— Jenny Zhang

“As far as I can tell, a young adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read.”

— Stephen Colbert

I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the…

— Tom Perrotta

When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and…

— Aravind Adiga

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into…

— Lydia Davis

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans…

— Nicholas Sparks

A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response,…

— August Wilson

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary novel where…

— Neel Mukherjee