Books Quote by Diane Setterfield

“I read old novels. The reason is simple: I prefer proper endings. Marriages and deaths, noble sacrifices and miraculous restorations, tragic separations and unhoped-for…

— Diane Setterfield

“Literature had taken possession even of her memories. She was matching him, presumably, with certain characters in the old novels...”

— Virginia Woolf

At conventions, one of the standard questions I get is, 'Are you writing any new novels?' To which I used to respond, in my…

— Peter David

“ The Prodigal Son They gave the deep end of their heart--a hue of crimson red, They whispered their desire and offered up their…

— Shannon L. Alder

“endings that are muted, but which echo longer in the memory than louder, more explosive denouements.”

— Diane Setterfield

“He has described in precise, measured words the beautiful desolation he feels at the close of novels where the message is that there is…

— Diane Setterfield

At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United…

— Kate Beckinsale

When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and…

— John Green

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get…

— Colum McCann

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see…

— Carl Hiaasen

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

— Anonymous

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea…

— John Green