Books Quote by John Burdett

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

— Anna Quindlen

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Russell Smith

I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good.

— Gillian Flynn

Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

— Cynthia Voigt

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

— Milan Kundera

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

— Alec-Tweedie

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

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

— James Scott Bell

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

— Alison Pill

I don't very often read novels.

— Sidney Poitier