Books Quote by William Targ

The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it.

— Ned Beauman

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.

— Will Hobbs

Don Juan's story can have no end, and that, on my word, is the definitive and true story of 'Don Juan.'

— Peter Handke

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover…

— Frederick Wiseman

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

— Michael Helm

For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory…

— Anonymous

“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel…

— John Franklin Bardin

I come at it from a different angle of attack with each novel, searching for the technological texture the story demands. There isn't a…

— Alastair Reynolds

As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not…

— Lord Byron

One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely…

— Joseph Jacobs