Answers Quote by Walter Gilbert

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and…

— Philip Yancey

“You learn lots of interesting things when you take the time to find the answers to the questions your mind generates because some part…

— H. Paul Honsinger

Even when I read a book, if the book leaves me the possibility of finding certain solutions or working on my own toward a…

— Sergio Leone

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new…

— Haruki Murakami

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

— Alejandro Zambra

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover…

— Frederick Wiseman

Before writing, I start with a series of questions, specific things I need to know before I can write the book... That list grows…

— David B. Coe

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

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions…

— Donna Tartt

You learn every time you write a book, and then you take that new knowledge and experience into the next book. Hopefully, every time,…

— Ann Patchett

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical…

— Cory Doctorow

The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing.

— Nick Dear