Books Quote by Ben Fountain

Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be…

— Tess Gerritsen

Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I didn't have to know the…

— Austin Grossman

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was…

— William Nicholson

A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.

— Paule Marshall

I have died and gone to the land of bad novels.

— Gail Carriger

My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.

— Alan Lightman

After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the…

— Chang-Rae Lee

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them…

— Miley Cyrus

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around…

— Nicholas Mosley

The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.

— Zadie Smith

I've never abandoned the novel.

— V. S. Naipaul

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I…

— Philipp Meyer