Books Quote by David Berlinski

Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.

— William Golding

I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway…

— Helen Oyeyemi

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there…

— Piers Anthony

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

— Marguerite Young

Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There are very few films that work like a novel.

— Robert Schwentke

“A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When Don Quixote…

— Milan Kundera

I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.

— Scott Turow

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

For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than…

— Carlos Fuentes

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.

— Thomas Sydenham

We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

— Jay McInerney