492 Quotes About Novels

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.

Thank God For Writing, As Now I Can Work Until My Last Breath!

Attitude Is More Important Than Talent

The Best Deal Is The One Where Everyone Walks Away Happy!

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.

Contemporary novels can have a fleeting existence within the current multiplication of medias and the technological rapidity with which art is delivered and consumed. A cultural lacuna has opened, one that needs arresting.

In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it.

The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.... To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past.

That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.