Quote by Jane Austen

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have…

— Jane Austen

“A true fiction author is able to act through each character in their book and deliver stunning performances.”

— Conrad Brasso

“For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending…

— Sara Sheridan

“We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.”

— Henry James

“Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.”

— Anthony Powell

“I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify…

— Toni Morrison

“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

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of…

— Carolyn See

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“Novelist: Telling lies for fun and profit.”

— Marilyn Celeste Morris

“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“A great book does not have to be a literary masterpiece with complicated sentences and words no one has heard of. It has to…

— Amanda Mackey