Art Quote by Virginia Woolf

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

— Katherine Center

Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes…

— Jeanette Winterson

A novel is challenging, because you have more story than you need and you have to select and narrow.

— Peter Hedges

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

— Laura van den Berg

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best…

— Karl Kraus

“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant…

— Don DeLillo

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

— Henning Mankell

Picture books are more difficult for me because it is telling a huge story in the least amount of words.

— Renee Watson

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I want it to be easy to read. I'm not writing exotic literature.

— Clive Cussler