Apprenticeship Quote by Jane Rule

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

— Leslie Fiedler

The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the…

— V. S. Pritchett

One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste…

— Leo Steinberg

I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

— Donna Tartt

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel…

— John Irving

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

— Anonymous

In terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long" novel.

— Scott Bradfield

“I think there really is no other way to write a long, serious novel. You work, shelve it for a while, work, shelve it…

— John Gardner

“Tweets and text messages killed the long novel.”

— Andrew Barger

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

— Anonymous

I guess if I was made responsible for every single line of dialogue in a game and every single piece of textual visual detail,…

— Richard K. Morgan