Be careful Quote by Anonymous

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

— Zadie Smith

Novels are a safe way to talk about things.

— Jay Asher

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

— Jeffery Deaver

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

— Alejandro Zambra

I don't very often read novels.

— Sidney Poitier

One must always be careful of books,

— Cassandra Clare

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

— Salman Rushdie

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.

— Jane Gardam

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

— Alison Pill

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

— Margaret Oliphant

It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.

— Joan Didion