Admission Quote by Matthew Healy

I don't very often read novels.

— Sidney Poitier

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Gillian Flynn

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 do find it challenging to leave stuff out. Two of my models for novel-writing are 'The Great Gatsby' and 'As I Lay Dying,'…

— Amy Bloom

I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me, so I…

— Miranda July

With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm…

— Catherine Fisher

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of…

— Elizabeth Kostova

The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or…

— Molly Ringwald

Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

— Michael Helm

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

— Tom Sizemore