Always Quote by Jane Smiley

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

— Jane Smiley

“Largely to gain Nellie’s approbation, Will began to carry a book as a matter of course. “Trollope is a great favorite of mine because…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Not all great writers may seem great to us, regardless of how often and how hard we try to see their virtues. I know,…

— Francine Prose

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners,…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

“And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it is obvious…

— Virginia Woolf

I never troll for material. It simply presents itself, and is always unmistakable. This is why I want to roll my eyes when people…

— Dani Shapiro

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a…

— Sara Sheridan

“Your average genre novel is like a high speed car chase ending in a massive crash, with death, destruction, and balls of flame, from…

— Willduquette

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Anytime you have a female protagonist, it's going to turn into some feminist angle, and it's not a conscious thing on my part. It's…

— Elisabeth Moss

“What this amounts to, and what makes the critic with his nose for genre and structure so nervous, is that by all accounts this…

— Edward Whittemore