Books Quote by Doris Lessing

The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for…

— Doris Lessing

The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.

— Janet Burroway

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

— Albert Camus

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return…

— Jonathan Swift

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

— Piers Paul Read

“The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes a thousand.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all…

— Ayn Rand

Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that have come…

— Stanley Unwin

Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!

— Michael Crichton

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

— Neil Gaiman

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

— Martin Luther

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

— Oscar Wilde