Novel Quotes

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.

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.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.