Adapted Quote by Edith Wharton

The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a…

— Anthony Burgess

I believe a novel must first of all be a good story. My hope is that the spiritual message is woven in so well,…

— Julie Klassen

It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in…

— Michael O'Brien

When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it.

— Naomi Alderman

Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of…

— Stella Gibbons

“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel…

— John Franklin Bardin

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— Gail McHugh

“I want to write a novel that is so good it causes readers to ignore meals, sleep, work, friends and spouses!!”

— R.E. Fisher

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

— Salman Rushdie

My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.

— Alan Lightman

Incarcerated individuals want what most people want in a novel: good, honest writing and a story well told.

— George Pelecanos

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

— Louise Penny