Books Quote by Jennifer Egan

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

— Ntozake Shange

What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months.

— Jane Fallon

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

— Leonard Mlodinow

I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I work hard…

— Jay Neugeboren

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put…

— Chris Pavone

What I've done is I've started writing a novel, so that's my big adventure.

— Lesley Sharp

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

I write the books that I'm compelled to and I definitely learn things about the world when I write them, and I hope that…

— Colson Whitehead

I definitely want to write some fiction, for sure. I already have half of the next book. I already have it all mapped out.…

— Moshe Kasher

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of…

— E. O. Wilson

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

— Philip Gerard

As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.

— Lynne Tillman