Books Quote by Kay Kenyon

“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

“I never write the storyline ahead of the novel and stick to it like glue. I prefer my writing to be organic. It takes…

— Airambooksie

“The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal for perfection. Too long, sometimes too much like life.”

— Ian McEwan

“If there is progress then there is a novel.”

— William Carlos Williams

“As far as I can tell, a young adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read.”

— Stephen Colbert

“writing a novel is extremely complicated. So complicated, in fact, that you cannot possibly hold your entire novel in your head all at once.…

— Nathan Bransford

“A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop. You rest.…

— Anonymous

“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and”

— Neil Gaiman

“Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.”

— Richard Peck

“Talking about ideas for a novel is a bit like showing pictures of the ultrasound if you're pregnant. Until they're out in the world,…

— Clare Boylan

“The problem with reading a good book is trying to cope after it's finished.”

— Devonnie A. Black

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks…

— Ksenia Anske