Books Quote by Steve Erickson

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

— Sally Rooney

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

— Ann Patchett

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover…

— Frederick Wiseman

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

— Richard Harris

I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to…

— Helen Simonson

I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a…

— Neil Gaiman

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

— Wole Soyinka

I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either…

— Khaled Hosseini

In fiction, if people like one of your books, they tend to pick up your other books as well.

— Ravi Subramanian