Books Quote by Rachel Kushner

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if…

— Charles Palliser

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

— Lincoln Child

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

— Howard Gordon

I won't read novels while writing novels.

— Wally Lamb

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

— David Mitchell

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

— Elizabeth George

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

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

— Benjamin Disraeli