Love Quote by Gail McHugh

None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's…

— Paula Danziger

“But maybe if we tried to change destiny instead of running toward it with open arms, maybe what’s written wouldn’t be set in stone.”

— Traci Chee

Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and a more…

— Steve Erickson

When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it.

— Naomi Alderman

Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of…

— Stella Gibbons

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

— Edith Wharton

“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel…

— John Franklin Bardin

“I want to write a novel that is so good it causes readers to ignore meals, sleep, work, friends and spouses!!”

— R.E. Fisher

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

— Salman Rushdie

My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.

— Alan Lightman

Incarcerated individuals want what most people want in a novel: good, honest writing and a story well told.

— George Pelecanos

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

— Louise Penny