Books Quote by Norman Mailer

Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things…

— Andy Rooney

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a…

— Reif Larsen

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 think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

— Dennis Potter

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's…

— Truman Capote

I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to…

— Teju Cole

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover…

— Frederick Wiseman

If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you.

— Joe R. Lansdale

If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in…

— Colum McCann

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

— Alejandro Zambra

“You should read the novel in order to live, to feel, to tell someone the hidden secret of it. Read as if its your…

— Emma Brynstein