Books Quote by Fay Weldon

“The inexperienced reader wants the essentially familiar combined with superficial novelty. Each story must have a slightly new setting or twist or "gimmick," though…

— Laurence Perrine

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst

“...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for: they undermine…

— Elias Canetti

Originally I was going to write a fashion style guide, but then my publishers suggested I write a novel instead.

— Tinsley Mortimer

“I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my own inner…

— Sven Birkerts

A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He…

— Paulo Coelho

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“A fiction writer is nothing more then the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how many people…

— Carl Henegan

If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge…

— Don DeLillo

The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for…

— Norman Mailer

“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for literature. Books…

— Steve Almond

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

— John Banville