Books Quote by William Golding

Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that…

— Rick Riordan

“Writing a successful novel is a great challenge, and you have to be a bit of a poet, a bit of a critic, a…

— Anis Shivani

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

— Khaled Hosseini

A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

— Stephen King

I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in what was…

— Donna Tartt

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

I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on…

— William Finnegan

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