Book Quote by Dawn Powell

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

Fiction novels, that's my game.

— David Benioff

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.

— Peter Straub

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.

— James N. Frey

A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are…

— Neil Gaiman

“The best books act like a powerful drug--they take you out of your own head into experiences, emotions and settings a million miles away.”

— Anonymous-9

I have a novel out, 'Lupus Rex,' that I wrote and am excited about that.

— John Carter Cash

A novel usually begins, in my experience, with a thought or image that won't leave me alone.

— John Lanchester

The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of…

— Robert Walser

A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.

— Janet Fitch

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

— Richard Wright

For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.

— Zadie Smith