Advantage Quote by E. M. Forster

But rather that we should lose our sense that neither can become the other, that the traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

— Angus Wilson

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

What I find is that many times when I work with chance, with indeterminacy, I am more open to experience, less prone to a…

— Sergio Chejfec

I believe that, when [meeting of writer and reader] happens and the reader goes out into the world the next day, there's some alteration…

— George Saunders

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

— Ashwin Sanghi

“Transforming our intuitions into articulate form is precisely the purpose of this book.”

— Eugene L. Lowry

“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which…

— Sven Birkerts

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

— Patricia Briggs

In my experience, a novel is the culmination of various thoughts and impressions collected over time, until something comes along to give them a…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out…

— Diane Johnson