Books Quote by Edward St Aubyn

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

My novels are never truly finished, even if they're published and sitting on the shelf. While I may no longer be interested in spending…

— Jillian Medoff

When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the…

— Ruth Ozeki

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

— Paul Auster

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

— Richard Harris

Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into a book.

— Rebecca Serle

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a…

— Richard Wright

I've read all the 'Game of Thrones' books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it can be…

— Emilia Clarke

I love Victorian novels, the way they capture the nuances of the human condition.

— Sal Khan

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat

I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two…

— Judy Blume

Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep.

— Ben Katchor