Books Quote by Iain Banks

It's always fun to talk about a novel.

— Susan Straight

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

— Donna Tartt

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

— Gish Jen

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

— Kanye West

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

— Katherine Center

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

— Alice Hoffman

Other writers know what you're going through, what you're talking about when you write.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

— Barbara Pym