#nov

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

#books #carefully #consolations #contemplative #ever

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city. ↗

— John Green

#chicago #city #favorite #first #i

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle. ↗

— John Green

#american #because #disease #epic #family

A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel. ↗

— Julien Green

#man #never #novel #produce #scrupulous

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. ↗

— Graham Greene

#fiction #journalists #keep #more #more and more

I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#also #american #believer #bring #competition

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me. ↗

— Zane Grey

#every #feel #force #i #i feel

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great. ↗

— Zane Grey

#determined #great #i #novel #today

One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S. ↗

— Andrew Gross

#book #i #i think #influence #king

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. ↗