I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel.
Rob Thomas
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
Henry David Thoreau
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
Anne Tyler
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
Kenneth Tynan
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot... →
Kurt Vonnegut
I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'
Amy Waldman