Books Quote by Pope Pius XII

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

— Leslie Fiedler

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.

— Martin Amis

I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books.

— Bernard Pivot

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

— Evelyn Waugh

I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long…

— William Golding

“The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all,…

— Carlos Fuentes

“Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it’s merely the latest in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“There is no point in having the idea for a wonderful novel if you have never learned to read and write.”

— Ursula Markham

You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear.

— Deb Caletti

“No novel is anything, for the purposes either of comedy or tragedy, unless the reader can sympathise with the characters whose names he finds…

— Anthony Trollope

I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.

— Meg Rosoff

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the…

— Kurt Vonnegut