Books Quote by Manuel Puig

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

You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive except in…

— David Foster Wallace

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

I won't read novels while writing novels.

— Wally Lamb

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality…

— Michel Houellebecq

Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether…

— Gioconda Belli

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

— Haruki Murakami

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

— Henning Mankell

I write novels and other things.

— Jack L. Chalker

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

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

— Elin Hilderbrand

Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.

— Curtis Sittenfeld