Books Quote by Don DeLillo

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

— Peter Carey

You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make.

— David Means

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be…

— Don DeLillo

I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around…

— Julianna Baggott

It's not the shape,cover, or length of the book that matters. But the story itself

— Veronica Nolan

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which…

— Rose Tremain

“Writing a novel is a bit like making a sword. First, you take all the raw material and melt it down in a crucible,…

— Robert Parry

My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.

— Alphonse Daudet

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

— John Irving

Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf…

— Ben Dolnick

To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form…

— Julia Glass