Books Quote by William Finnegan

It is right precious to behold The first long surf of climbing light Flood all the thirsty east with gold.

— James Russell Lowell

“I’ve wanted to write about them for a long while, but it’s a tricky subject, always put off for later and perhaps worthy of…

— Wisława Szymborska

Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

What we know about writing the novel is the novel.

— Eudora Welty

I think the success of every novel - if it's a novel of action - depends on the high spots. The thing to do…

— P. G. Wodehouse

To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and they may all be…

— Per Petterson

In general, I think every novel is a political novel, in that every novel is an argument about how the world works, who has…

— Micah Perks

My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when…

— Salman Rushdie

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

— Matthew Specktor

The novel ceases to be looked at as a novel. Such is the overwhelming power of motion pictures. Gore Vidal pointed out that the…

— William Monahan

In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Clearly she knew that between book lovers, a novel is not a novel is not a novel. It's a symbol, an offering -- and…

— Sara Nelson