Books Quote by Paul Auster

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's…

— Paul Auster

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

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

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

— Joe Klein

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

— Roddy Doyle

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

— Anne Tyler

I usually focus on the whole group of characters in any given work-in-progress, and as a result they become particularly dear to me as…

— Vera Nazarian

I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two…

— Judy Blume

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

— David Mitchell

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical…

— Cory Doctorow

I'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.

— George Pelecanos

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That…

— Janet Fitch