Aspirin Quote by John Dos Passos

Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having - a little fantasy about the people we might turn into one…

— Nick Hornby

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 is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been…

— Emily Barton

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

In my experience, a novel is the culmination of various thoughts and impressions collected over time, until something comes along to give them a…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad,…

— Lorrie Moore

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel.

— Alastair Reynolds

“...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

“A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.”

— Mark Rubinstein

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

“Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance better than…

— Michael Pollan