Believe Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

— Bret Easton Ellis

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

— Henning Mankell

“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

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 suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a…

— Neil Gaiman

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the…

— Brandon Sanderson

Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they were written…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather…

— Michael Cunningham

What we know about writing the novel is the novel.

— Eudora Welty