Books Quote by Leslie Fiedler

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

— Jeff Bezos

I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long…

— William Golding

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

— Vladimir Nabokov

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

— Tom Wolfe

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

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

— Michael Crichton

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

— Michael Helm

At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.

— William T. Vollmann

There are very few films that work like a novel.

— Robert Schwentke

Let nothing novel be introduced!

— Pope Pius XII

Mystery, investigation, false leads, solution - we associate that structure with genre fiction, but it exists in our real lives, too. There's no reason…

— Ned Beauman

The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited…

— Percy Lubbock