Books Quote by Walker Percy

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

— John Green

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

A novel means a new way of doing a story

— Romesh Gunesekera

A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad,…

— Lorrie Moore

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

— George Saunders

In my experience, a novel is the culmination of various thoughts and impressions collected over time, until something comes along to give them a…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

— Kathy Acker

A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a…

— Deborah Moggach

The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a…

— Aleksandar Hemon

A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is…

— Shane Warren Jones