Novel Quote by Dodi Prananda

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

— Anna Quindlen

“Holy hell, Trev! What kind of move was that?” Trevor leaned over her with a big smile on his face. “You really thought I…

— Cecilia Aubrey & Chris Almeida

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I…

— Nathalie Sarraute

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

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what…

— Martin Amis

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

— Haruki Murakami

Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian…

— C.J. Sansom

At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple…

— Tom Rachman

After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was…

— Philipp Meyer

No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.

— Anonymous

What I strive to do is make my characters seem like real people so that the reader experiences them as people - that's something…

— Jaume Cabre