After party Quote by Maggie Stiefvater

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

— John Green

A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from…

— Anne Fortier

The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a novel are…

— Ken Liu

Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish…

— Ruskin Bond

Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you…

— Neil Cross

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things,…

— Ned Vizzini

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

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

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience…

— Alan Lightman

“We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect…

— C.K. Webb

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

— Flannery O'Connor

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

— Samuel Johnson