Always Quote by Howard Jacobson

When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't…

— Peter York

I don't read my own books, but sometimes if there is a new edition I open it and then I feel this life of…

— Peter Handke

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.

— John Cheever

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

— Richard Cecil

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

— Alice Hoffman

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

“Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it’s merely the latest in…

— Thomas C. Foster

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.…

— John Cheever

“You don’t know that my books do good?’ ‘No, I don’t know. I know that men are already getting past “novels” without novelty, and…

— M.P. Shiel

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

— Elizabeth Kostova

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the…

— Ann Patchett

Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether…

— Jose Saramago