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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of…

— Agnes Repplier

“...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for: they undermine…

— Elias Canetti

There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer,

— S. S. Van Dine

“most common people oft he market-place much prefer light literature to improving books. The problem is, that so many romances contain slanderous anecdotes about…

— Cao Xueqin

“We need individual stories. Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, ‘casualties may rise to a million’. With…

— Neil Gaiman

Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

— Arnold Bennett

“Early on, for better or worse, I chose whose child I wanted to be: the child of the novel. Almost everything else was subjugated…

— Zadie Smith

“Exposing a young child to the realities of love and death is far less dangerous than exposing them to the lie of the happy…

— Caitlin Doughty

You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's…

— Anonymous

I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of…

— Martin Amis

The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for…

— Doris Lessing