Books Quote by Jacqueline Susann

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.

— Jacqueline Susann

Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read.

— Pete Hamill

I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in…

— Ian Mcewan

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no…

— Anthony Burgess

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

— Alistair MacLeod

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

— Virginia Woolf

Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they…

— Sarah Weinman

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.

— Russell Smith

The writer studies literature, not the world.

— Annie Dillard

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor