Books Quote by Jacques Poulin

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

— George Saunders

A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival…

— Janice Y. K. Lee

I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that.…

— Haruki Murakami

One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story; you cannot…

— Yiyun Li

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