Birth Quote by Paul Di Filippo

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true.…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

Novels often thin themselves out to a watery hue - some even start that way - and at times seem to only ride along…

— David Means

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who…

— Flannery O'Connor

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

“life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction’s purpose,”

— Katie Kitamura

The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince…

— Lynn Coady

“For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work of nonfiction,…

— A.K. Wallace

Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know that we…

— Joseph Brodsky

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

— Alice Hoffman

“And form this kind of thought has emerged a new conclusion: which is that it is not only childish of a writer to want…

— Doris Lessing

“I am thus led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative...A…

— E.L. Doctorow