A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
Hilary Mantel
BookQuestionsAnswersShouldNovel
I'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.
George Pelecanos
AlwaysNextWorkingEvenNovel
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
Ellen Goodman
WorkValueBoxWithoutSocialNovel
In my novel, 'First Blood,' Rambo died. In the films, he lives.
David Morrell
BloodFirstHeNovelLivesDied
I invented the historical spy novel.
Alan Furst
SpyHistoricalNovelInvented
In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of 'True Detective' that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices.
Nic Pizzolatto
ThinkingSummerTrueTwoNextNovel
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
LifeGodWriteHimNovel
I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.
Eleanor Catton
MuchNovelReallyConceptualPrefer
I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
Umera Ahmad
YearWriteTwoNovelConstantly
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
Salman Rushdie
CharacterNeverWriteNovelIndian
I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.
Nathan Englander
MeNowTellCallStoriesNovel
A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
Ingrid Betancourt
EyeYouWayCannotNovelConfront
The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.
John Banville
ResilientNovelNovelists
There are very few films that work like a novel.
Robert Schwentke
WorkLikeNovelFewVeryFilms
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
Jean Rhys
LifeShapeLikeMuchNovelVery
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
Sue Grafton
WritingSeriouslyNeverFirstNovel
The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.
Rose Tremain
ProcessYouExistentialPanicNovel
I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.
Marv Levy
NewStartedGetHopingNovel
I'm never doing a long novel again, truly.
Judy Blume
DoingLongNeverAgainNovelTruly
I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
Donna Leon
PlanKnowNeverHappenGoingNovel
Writing a novel that crosses genres is a risk, but one well worth taking.
Chet Williamson
WritingWorthRiskWellNovel
There's never a false note in a Berg novel.
Augusten Burroughs
NeverFalseNoteNovel
I name the genre that I write in as 'novel of voices.'
Svetlana Alexievich
NameWriteVoicesGenreNovel
On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.
Sharon Bolton
IslandCrimeHappenAnythingNovel
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