Age Quote by Curtis Sittenfeld

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

— Anonymous

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to…

— Matthew Healy

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

— Anita Brookner

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things,…

— Ned Vizzini

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

— Wally Lamb

I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a…

— Neil Gaiman

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat