Announcing Quote by Paul Fussell

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They…

— Cornelia Funke

That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less than 'great.'

— Jenny Zhang

Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people…

— Fran Lebowitz

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things,…

— Ned Vizzini

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

— Kanye West

A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going to write…

— Alex Garland

A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books in, even…

— Augusten Burroughs

People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible, it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until it's done.…

— Lewis Black

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros