Adequate Quote by Janet Burroway

The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.

— Russell Smith

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

— Lorrie Moore

The luxury of time to write, and the confidence to do so, make it easier for the more affluent and when the most decorated…

— Dawn Foster

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

— John Irving

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

— Martin Freeman

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In a novel,…

— Howard Gordon

One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility…

— Kate Forsyth

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being…

— Kanika Dhillon

“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and”

— Neil Gaiman

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as…

— Christopher Koch