Novel Requires Quotes
- A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense… — Dan Chaon
- My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to… — Joshua Ferris
- However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be… — Jonathan Lethem
- The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy. — Ian Mcewan
- We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar… — Virginia Postrel