Categories Quote by Will Self

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

— Emily Barton

There are so many other people involved in the making of a play or a television series or whatever... even if you're a novelist…

— Peter Morgan

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

— Patricia Briggs

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

— William Gibson

As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which by another…

— James A. Michener

I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so say for…

— DJ Spooky

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

— Alex Flinn

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

— Karen Kingsbury

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 don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching…

— Richard Bach

I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a…

— Paule Marshall

“Infinite Jest specifically: an endlessly, compulsively entertaining book that stingily withholds from readers the core pleasures of mainstream novelistic entertainment, among them a graspable…

— David Foster Wallace