Although Quote by Joan Didion

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's…

— Terry Pratchett

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people…

— Edwidge Danticat

A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others.

— Richard Flanagan

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical…

— Cory Doctorow

When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't…

— Peter York

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which…

— Sven Birkerts

To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but…

— Jonathan Franzen

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay…

— Markus Zusak

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get…

— Walter Mosley