Books Quote by Michel Houellebecq

I think there's a false division people sometimes make in describing literary novels, where there are people who write systems novels, or novels of…

— Dana Spiotta

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea…

— John Green

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

— Anna Quindlen

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I…

— Nathalie Sarraute

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

— Anne Lamott

“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true…

— Anonymous

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

— Philipp Meyer

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

— Michael Helm

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United…

— Kate Beckinsale

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get…

— Colum McCann