All things Quote by D. H. Lawrence

Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.

— John Guare

... 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

A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It must be…

— Mike Nichols

Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages of the…

— Sarah Waters

Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the…

— Marcel Proust

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

— James Merrill

A novel is not a play. A novel takes one reader at a time into its confidence. It can be shockingly personal. Private, even.

— Howard Jacobson

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

— Edward Albee

You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business.…

— Morgan Freeman

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

— V. S. Naipaul

Everything in a novel has to be intentional, even the things that aren't.

— Scott Spencer