Able Quote by Gloria Naylor

When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come back look…

— Kate DiCamillo

Novels can fill in the spaces about what that emotional resonance is.

— Quiara Alegria Hudes

The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader, more universal…

— Clint Smith

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

— Ross Macdonald

The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.

— Joseph O'Neill

Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the…

— Sarah Waters

“And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages and mischievously…

— Azar Nafisi

Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself…

— Nicole Krauss

After the first shock of recognition - a sudden sense of "this is what I'm going to write" - the novel starts to breed…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.

— C.E. Morgan

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

— Jeffery Deaver

“The cover, title, the name of the author, how the work starts, the name of characters all this is important information which should be…

— Deyth Banger