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I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

— Kanye West

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

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

— Marilynne Robinson

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

— Henning Mankell

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

— Howard Gordon

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

— Lincoln Child

Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am really there,…

— Alison Weir

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very…

— Sandra Cisneros

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

— Elizabeth George

Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether…

— Gioconda Belli