Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Amos Oz

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Jessica Savitch

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.

Terry Pratchett

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.

Joyce Carol Oates

Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite.