Books Quote by Natsume Soseki

“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they…

— Janna Malamud Smith

“I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.”

— Marianne Cushing

“Who says only long tedious novels are good to read when all that can be summed up in one line”

— Priyansh Shah

“I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I…

— Chloe Thurlow

“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel…

— John Franklin Bardin

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith

“never assume that just because you see something in a novel, it reflects the author’s own personality or interests.”

— Mark Pryor

“I wonder what it is about a certain novel that ticks the boxes for a reader. I mean, for me, a story can have…

— Victoria Connelly

The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant,…

— Cyril Connolly

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

“There is no point in having the idea for a wonderful novel if you have never learned to read and write.”

— Ursula Markham