Nathalie Sarraute Quotes

I have a novel out, 'Lupus Rex,' that I wrote and am excited about that.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

I do think novels are overlooked. I did write one some years ago that I think is quite good, called 'The End of the Story,' not to blow my own horn.

As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.

I think printed fiction is what women read.

There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out.

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.'

I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

Nearly all novels are too long.

I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.

There are always interesting, innovative, dynamic stories being written and being published. They're not always being prominently published, but they're being published.

I will read anything at all by Kate Atkinson, Daniel Woodrell, and William Kennedy, who are all fearless.

I'll read anything Anne Carson writes, anything J. M. Coetzee writes, and anything Cormac McCarthy writes. I'll drop whatever I'm doing to read a new Mary Ruefle essay.

Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers.

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

I like very much to read novels. I like very much some writers.

I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short story writing.