Book Quote by Brenda Walker

A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go…

— William Golding

“We know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the reader must be at the…

— Roland Barthes

“Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one.…

— Mavis Gallant

“The importance of a story doesn't merely lie in the development of its plot and the characters involved in it, but in its exploration…

— Gulzar

“There seems a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labor of the novelist, and of slighting performances which have only genius,…

— Jane Austen

Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But…

— Jane Smiley

“A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.”

— Mark Rubinstein

A novel should tell a story, be a pleasure to read, and at the same time it should be thought-provoking, even a bit instructive.

— Olga Tokarczuk

“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.”

— George Saunders

“A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I…

— Mark Twain

“...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of…

— Karen Armstrong

“When you start writing, you may think you will use the book to guide readers down certain paths and through certain themes. But, the…

— M.D. Cliatt