Books Quote by Marilynne Robinson

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly…

— Stef Penney

“Unfortunately, the story wasn’t a novel, and it wasn’t fiction.”

— Aleatha Romig

There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of…

— Joseph O'Neill

I wrote 'Don't Look Back' in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn't contracted, so there was a freedom in that…

— Jennifer Armentrout

I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,'…

— Amy Waldman

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

— Peter Carey

“But really it says everything that’s wrong about the publishing industry, that a quarter of a million people bought and read a sex and…

— Sarra Manning

“I tried to write a coming of age novel, but I wasn't deep enough to get past the third chapter.”

— Rick Robinson

Protestantism, of course, is much more explicitly divided into different traditions - the Pentecostals, the Anglicans. But there is the main tradition of Protestantism…

— Marilynne Robinson

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.”

— Thomas Harris

If you get trapped in your head and out of your body during the writing process, it's very easy to make wrong turns. You…

— Soman Chainani

When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either…

— Irvine Welsh