Books Quote by James Buchan

The luxury of time to write, and the confidence to do so, make it easier for the more affluent and when the most decorated…

— Dawn Foster

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

— Piers Paul Read

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

— Roger Ebert

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

— Chetan Bhagat

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

— Italo Calvino

A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and…

— David Mamet

In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us deep into…

— Junot Diaz

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!

— Michael Crichton

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing…

— Carl Hiaasen

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

— Aldous Huxley

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

— Gillian Flynn