Books Quote by Flannery O'Connor

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

— Anne Enright

The luxury of time to write, and the confidence to do so, make it easier for the more affluent and when the most decorated…

— Dawn Foster

Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

— James Salter

The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.

— Janet Burroway

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in…

— Anthony Burgess

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being…

— Kanika Dhillon

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

— Lorrie Moore

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary…

— Helen Dunmore

Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost…

— Mohsin Hamid

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

— Sarah Fielding

I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a…

— Paule Marshall

I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain…

— J. K. Rowling