Books Quote by Curtis Sittenfeld

“We're at once alone and in close company: this is the great gift of the novel, the element that makes reading more than a…

— Brenda Walker

I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as…

— William Lashner

“A few minutes later she was concentrating on her novel, which was half-finished. The theme of this book was a suicide. The death of…

— Doris Lessing

To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but…

— Jonathan Franzen

I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“But the slice-of-life novel is really not so much a world apart as an interlude - like the conference or the film set, the…

— Susan Cooper

Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same…

— Peter Jackson

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

— David Berlinski

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before,…

— John le Carre

The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living in the…

— Anna Quindlen

I get letters from adults saying that they love the books because they are more in-depth with characterization than the comics. The luxury of…

— Lisa Yee

The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

— Nicholson Baker