Books Quote by Edwidge Danticat

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

— Alejandro Zambra

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner

I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's…

— Tamora Pierce

I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from…

— Anonymous

“A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth reading to…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is…

— Anthony Trollope

I have more self-doubt than any writer I've ever known… The positive aspect of self-doubt - if you can channel it into useful activity…

— Dean Koontz

I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never…

— Lisa Lutz

You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written…

— Ngaio Marsh

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page…

— Theodore Sturgeon

In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take…

— Cecelia Ahern