Book Quote by Dorothy Parker

This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

— Dorothy Parker

For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating force.

— Meg Wolitzer

If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.

— Terry Eagleton

What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away.

— Lionel Shriver

This Is Not a Novel memorializes the treasures and detritus of one man's singularly cultured mind. (...) If you don't know Writer's work at…

— Michael Dirda

“Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should…

— Edna O'Brien

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

— Michael Ondaatje

The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.

— Russell Smith

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

— John Irving

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

— Heinrich Mann

I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long…

— William Golding

The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.

— Diane Johnson