Books Quote by Jami Attenberg

I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind…

— William Golding

“... a novel which I called Pornografia. At that time it wasn’t such a bad title, today, in view of the excess of pornography,…

— Witold Gombrowicz

I have this very moment finished reading a novel called The Vicar of Wakefield [by Oliver Goldsmith]… It appears to me, to be impossible…

— Fanny Burney

A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in…

— Azar Nafisi

... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.

— Robert Musil

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

— Neil Gaiman

I've always wanted to write an early reader. When I wrote my first novel, my goal was to make it an early reader, but…

— Grace Lin

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was…

— William Nicholson

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

— Michael Connelly

I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I…

— Jonathan Dee

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do…

— Patricia MacLachlan