Author Quote by Ned Vizzini

A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go…

— William Golding

Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task -…

— Anonymous

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

— Kathy Acker

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

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

That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less than 'great.'

— Jenny Zhang

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and they may all be…

— Per Petterson

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

— Mark Vonnegut

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have…

— Ethan Canin

A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is…

— Shane Warren Jones