Anywhere Quote by Zadie Smith

I'm always interested in the way people speak and move in their environment, in a very particular environment. I'm never interested in writing a…

— Zadie Smith

It's not my intention to be understood. I will continue writing for a readership that is fundamentally local. Because if you want to produce…

— Sarnath Banerjee

Any setting can be a good setting for a novel.

— Chris Pavone

The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the desert, in…

— Amos Oz

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary…

— Helen Dunmore

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but…

— John Green

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

— Dave Eggers

Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to lack as…

— Michelle Dean

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

— Alex Flinn

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

— Sara Sheridan

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

— Barbara Pym

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías