Books Quote by David Means

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

— Maggie Shipstead

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters;…

— Penelope Lively

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

— Sally Rooney

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

— Michael Korda

Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.

— Philip Larkin

I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a…

— Paule Marshall

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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 novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short,…

— Margaret Mahy

I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of. But they…

— Charles Soule

Novels can be a snapshot of a moment in time, or several moments in time, and as a reader, that's what I really like,…

— Meg Wolitzer

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton