Books Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

I couldn't pay attention to a novel; I'd get three pages in and couldn't remember what it was about.

— Adriano Zumbo

The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put…

— Sylvia Plath

If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book.

— Roger Zelazny

You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make.

— David Means

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

— Anonymous

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

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't…

— Eddie Campbell

Kiss me a paragraph, and I will reply with a novel.

— Anonymous

The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.

— Terry Pratchett

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

— John Irving

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

— Jorge Luis Borges

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

— Michael Crichton