Books Quote by Edward Abbey

I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me, so I…

— Miranda July

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing…

— Carl Hiaasen

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things,…

— Ned Vizzini

Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to lack as…

— Michelle Dean

Most authors liken the struggle of writing to something mighty and macho, like wrestling a bear. Writing a book is nothing like that. It…

— Amy Poehler

What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in the best…

— Peter Orner

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

— Kathy Acker

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to…

— George Saunders

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

— James Salter

“One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel”

— John Gardner

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

— Jeffrey Archer