Books Quote by Justin Cartwright

'The Cauliflower' is full of these bizarre anecdotes, some of them petty, others moving or whimsical, as its many characters try to make sense…

— Justin Cartwright

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

— Mark Twain

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

— Michael Crichton

“The novel is a hybrid genre and a large part of its charm arises from the alluvial nature of its materials. There is nothing…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

— Randall Jarrell

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be…

— Diane Johnson

The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently.

— David Shields

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.

— Terry Pratchett

The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what…

— Italo Calvino

It's not the shape,cover, or length of the book that matters. But the story itself

— Veronica Nolan

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may…

— Ernest Hemingway