Books Quote by William Boyd

In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to…

— Jess Walter

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

— Anna Quindlen

“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true…

— Anonymous

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

— Philipp Meyer

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

— Michael Helm

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United…

— Kate Beckinsale

When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and…

— John Green

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get…

— Colum McCann

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see…

— Carl Hiaasen

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

— Anonymous

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea…

— John Green