Books Quote by Ken Follett

“I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether;…

— P. G. Wodehouse

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías

I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'

— Bharati Mukherjee

“One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.”

— Alain de Botton

“...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for: they undermine…

— Elias Canetti

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

— John Banville

“Because—and don’t let anybody tell you different—novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy.”

— Richard Russo

“When you are writing a novel, you as the author will wear many hats. You are the writer, reader, and most importantly you are…

— LaQuita Cameron

“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.”

— Anne R. Allen

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

— William Makepeace Thackeray