About Quote by William Lashner

A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.

— David Mitchell

I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to…

— Teju Cole

I have never had a point in my life to make. I'm just trying to entertain the reader.

— Dave Barry

It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew I had…

— Tod Goldberg

You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I have never seen someone point after point that just gives it everything.

— John McEnroe

A novel is not a play. A novel takes one reader at a time into its confidence. It can be shockingly personal. Private, even.

— Howard Jacobson

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your…

— Bret Easton Ellis

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

— Po Bronson

Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as…

— Ben Clymer

I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents…

— Elizabeth Berg