Books Quote by Orhan Pamuk

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

I'm not really a mainstream novelist!

— Irvine Welsh

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

— Lincoln Child

The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't…

— Nicholson Baker

I am a novelist at heart.

— Vera Nazarian

I am a novelist through and through.

— Meg Wolitzer

All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place.

— Amos Oz

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

— Roddy Doyle

Novels are a safe way to talk about things.

— Jay Asher

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

— D. H. Lawrence

I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my…

— Sharon Kay Penman

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

— Haruki Murakami