Book Quote by Paul Gray

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

— Anthony Burgess

“My knowledge of Mr. Forster’s works is limited to one novel which I dislike; and anyway it was not he who fathered that trite…

— Vladimir Nabokov

As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be people who…

— Donald Barthelme

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be…

— Jane Austen

Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.

— Steve Martin

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people…

— Emma Donoghue

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.”

— Anthony Powell

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

— John Updike

“He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply…

— Andrew James Pritchard

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

— Michael Scott

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

— Adrianne Palicki