Accommodate Quote by Steven Brust

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the…

— Steven Brust

“The novel is a more diffused form and more suited to those who like to linger along the way; it also requires a more…

— Flannery O'Connor

“The novel is a hybrid genre and a large part of its charm arises from the alluvial nature of its materials. There is nothing…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

— Helen Dunmore

I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in the book.…

— Hilton Als

The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.

— Thomas Keller

“The Cool Stuff Theory of Literature is as follows: All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the…

— Steven Brust

A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and…

— John Irving

My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.

— Alphonse Daudet

The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach…

— John Dos Passos

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way…

— Ian Mcewan

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

— Elizabeth Bowen