Always Quote by Chad Harbach

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

— Gregory David Roberts

“What are we to do with the knowledge that Tayo was once a woman? That Ceremony held but abandoned considerable investments in Chicana identity,…

— David L. Moore

I love the novel as a form, as an adventure of mind and soul. Really, I absolutely love writing them; they consume my days…

— Lawrence Osborne

But rather that we should lose our sense that neither can become the other, that the traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers.

— Walter Hill

I think the graphic novel form works, in practice, a lot differently from watching a movie. You can put it down and pick it…

— Travis Beacham

The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate…

— Stephen Fry

It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are…

— Anne Michaels

One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are.

— Zadie Smith

I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.

— Mary Karr

I say sometimes that I'm a poet but I work in the novel form. That's what I do. That's what makes sense to me.…

— Douglas A. Martin