Novels Before Quotes
- It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer, — Andrea Hirata
- the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon — Elizabeth Bowen
- I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of… — Eleanor Catton
- I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism. — Francine Prose