The best project is one that asks a novel question.
Walter Gilbert

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

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
C. S. Forester

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
Donna Tartt

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.
Joan D. Vinge

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
Tobias Wolff

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
Peter Shaffer

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
Anthony Trollope

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
Manuel Puig

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
Manuel Puig

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
Sue Grafton

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
Bob Woodward

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
Anthony Trollope

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
Manuel Puig

And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers.
Tobias Wolff

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
Manuel Puig

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
Anne Tyler

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

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.
Donna Tartt