A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Jim Rohn
I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.
Judith Rossner
I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
Rainbow Rowell
In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.
J. K. Rowling
'Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th century that was never a film.
Albert S. Ruddy
Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists... →
Salman Rushdie
In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the... →
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.