Books Quote by Shane Dawson

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

— George Pelecanos

If I'm doing something I know I can pull off, then that's not the book I should be writing.

— Jennifer Egan

I couldn't pay attention to a novel; I'd get three pages in and couldn't remember what it was about.

— Adriano Zumbo

I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it,…

— Bobby Orr

You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make.

— David Means

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

— Wole Soyinka

I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or look away…

— Alexander Chee

You don't write a book to show off.

— Tony Orlando

The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.

— Zadie Smith

I have disassociated myself from that book.

— Uta Hagen

I feel no desire to write a novel that takes place in the past.

— Mohsin Hamid

Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I didn't have to know the…

— Austin Grossman