Animal Quote by Daniel Alarcon

If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

— Philip Roth

A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go…

— William Golding

To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two…

— Philip Roth

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

It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come…

— Ashwin Sanghi

A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad,…

— Lorrie Moore

If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel.

— Alastair Reynolds

A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin…

— John Dos Passos

After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.

— Terry Pratchett

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very…

— Sandra Cisneros

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel…

— John Irving

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