Books Quote by Haruki Murakami

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

— David Mitchell

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

— Paul Auster

I write novels and other things.

— Jack L. Chalker

There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best…

— Willow Smith

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That…

— Janet Fitch

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

— Virginia Woolf

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical…

— Cory Doctorow

I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or…

— Robert Cormier

I won't read novels while writing novels.

— Wally Lamb

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.

— Jakucho Setouchi

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson