Book Quote by Neil Gaiman

Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no…

— Anthony Burgess

I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going to write…

— Alex Garland

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a…

— Jonathan Lethem

“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor

I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school…

— M. K. Hobson

Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no matter what,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

— John Green

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

— Brian Aldiss