Books Quote by Octavia E. Butler

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

— James Merrill

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

— Taiye Selasi

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

— Patrick White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should…

— Edmund White

But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I felt that…

— Neal Stephenson

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

— William Nicholson

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

— Zane Grey

I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

— Ntozake Shange

Fiction novels, that's my game.

— David Benioff

I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and…

— Sarah Waters