Blow Quote by Lydia Davis

I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to…

— Matthew Healy

I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial…

— Julia Glass

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in…

— Ian Mcewan

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good.

— Gillian Flynn

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around…

— Nicholas Mosley

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

— Maggie Shipstead

Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective…

— Bruce Holland Rogers