Books Quote by Barbara Pym

“My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream…

— Barbara Pym

It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the…

— Don DeLillo

In my experience, a novel is the culmination of various thoughts and impressions collected over time, until something comes along to give them a…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

— Angus Wilson

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

— Ellen Glasgow

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel.…

— Philip Greenspun

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of…

— E. O. Wilson

“The novel is an event in consciousness. Our aim isn't to copy actuality, but to modify and recreate our sense of it. The novelist…

— George Buchanan

I'm not conscious of my own themes as I write first drafts, no, and in fact, I work hard to stay in that unconscious…

— Laurie Foos

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

I don't think I have a very novelistic brain. I like to read, but I don't know if I could ever write a novel.

— Jacob Anderson

Novels can be a snapshot of a moment in time, or several moments in time, and as a reader, that's what I really like,…

— Meg Wolitzer