Books Quote by Joan Didion

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

— Maggie Shipstead

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

— Salman Rushdie

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

I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward…

— Alison Pill

Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.

— Philip Larkin

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

— Sally Rooney

I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in…

— Nicholas Sparks

I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different,…

— Jess Walter

I don't very often read novels.

— Sidney Poitier

Generally, my notes and outlines comprise more words than my novels. I suppose that's one reason I'm a comparatively slow writer, something that has…

— Frank Peretti