Books Quote by Charles Stross

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.

— Gillian Flynn

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

— Gish Jen

Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

— Mohsin Hamid

“The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story”

— Brandt Legg

“Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is one of…

— Michel Butor

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

— Richard Flanagan

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical…

— Cory Doctorow

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're coming from…

— Lynn Coady

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing…

— William P. Young

A novel means a new way of doing a story

— Romesh Gunesekera