Agree Quote by Teju Cole

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

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.

— Steve Erickson

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be…

— Diane Johnson

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

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

— E. V. Lucas

In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand.

— Julie Klassen

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

— Henning Mankell

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

— Michael Helm

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

— James Thayer

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor