Quotes About Literature

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they're actually not as important as they're sometimes given credit for.

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in Simla.

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring that back to fiction.

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.

When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

My novels are all ideas.

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On the whole, I don't think the financial world has been well served by novels.

I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature... Never again another seven-volume saga.

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.