Books Quote by Emma Healey

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

— Henning Mankell

Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to…

— Thomas Harris

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

— Howard Gordon

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith

One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book. It's why…

— Michael Ondaatje

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find…

— Robert Penn Warren

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

— Sue Monk Kidd

If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book.

— Roger Zelazny

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

— Manuel Puig

A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is…

— Shane Warren Jones