Always Quote by Chad Harbach

The novel remains a very special form for me.

— Howard Gordon

The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.

— Joseph O'Neill

My medium is prose, not the novel.

— David Shields

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

— David Mitchell

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

— William Nicholson

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

— Sally Rooney

The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books.

— Elif Batuman

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

— Zadie Smith

I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a…

— Paule Marshall

“As always with the greatest works, the novel is so many-sided that over time it mirrors back the shifting concerns of those who read…

— Carl F. Hovde

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

— Mark Twain

Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.

— Megan Abbott