I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job..

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

Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel..

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

Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing..

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling..

Raymond Carver had the quote that I loved about how he felt that a short story was the moment right before someone's life was about to fall apart. Yo….

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 s….

Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her enjoyment..

I think of my novels as entertainments..

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it..

Someone ought to write a novel about me..

It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer..

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste..

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on..

The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader..

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that..

Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find..

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods..

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable..

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel..