Books Quote by Hortense Calisher

“Plenty of animals had pets, but few were more devoted than the mouse, who owned a baby corn snake—“A rescue snake, she’d be quick…

— David Sedaris

“I’m not saying Jesus won’t come back; I’ve just decided I can’t keep hoping to be rescued from my life. Maybe it’s up to…

— Aaron Hartzler

Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor…

— Katherine Paterson

I feel really strongly about not wanting to overly guide the reader about what he or she should think. I really trust the reader…

— Nicole Krauss

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

— Gregory David Roberts

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

— Salman Rushdie

“A novel is not an allegory...it is a sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the…

— Azar Nafisi

If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation…

— Karen Armstrong

At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple…

— Tom Rachman

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

— Haruki Murakami

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea…

— John Green

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

— Anna Quindlen