Quotes About Literature

It's always fun to talk about a novel.

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

Everything in a novel has to be intentional, even the things that aren't.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

A good novel editor is invisible.

The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700.

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

I've never abandoned the novel.

I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

I never wanted to be a Cold War novelist.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award.

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.

He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill.