Books Quote by Joan Didion

You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear - and only…

— Julianna Baggott

“Writing a novel creates a window to a new way of looking at the world. Reading one means looking through that window.”

— Mark Rubinstein

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.

— Chad Harbach

To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.

— Philip Sington

I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

— Anna Quindlen

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

— Carol Shields

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

— Noah Hawley

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

— Zadie Smith

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

— John Green

A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from…

— Anne Fortier

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

— Mo Yan

“Who says only long tedious novels are good to read when all that can be summed up in one line”

— Priyansh Shah