Books Quote by Jane Austen

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover…

— Frederick Wiseman

“There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or…

— Robert Cormier

I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.

— James Thayer

There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best…

— Willow Smith

I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.

— Robert Crumb

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.

— Scarlett Thomas

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

— Tom Perrotta

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

— Haruki Murakami

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.

— Neil Gaiman

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

— Iain Banks

My novels are all ideas.

— Michel Houellebecq