Books Quote by David Shields

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

— Anonymous

Fiction novels, that's my game.

— David Benioff

For me especially, I always need that literature medium.

— Masiela Lusha

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and”

— Neil Gaiman

When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.

— Frederick Busch

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

— Jim Harrison

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

— Elizabeth George

Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the…

— Ron Rash

I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.

— Mark Waid

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.

— Frank Peretti