Book Quote by Khaled Hosseini

I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a…

— Neil Gaiman

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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

“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school…

— M. K. Hobson

Those who say they would write a book if only they had time will never become authors.

— Catherine Cookson

Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't…

— Sarnath Banerjee

I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.

— Nicholas Sparks

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

— Kanye West

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor

All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

— Jean Rhys