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“Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong…

— Doris Lessing

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that.…

— Vikram Seth

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

“A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I…

— Mark Twain

“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't…

— Peter York

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article…

— Amy Waldman

“The best thing about being a writer is the ability to live vicariously through your own imagination, with no boundaries as to how you…

— Dawn Goodwin

By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it a little…

— Zia Haider Rahman

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.

— Gillian Flynn

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

— Harlan Coben

Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will…

— A. S. Byatt