“ In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself. Katie Roiphe Author
“ She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her stories were little masterpieces of compression: she succinctly contained whole lifetimes in a few pages, every moment loaded with as much as it could bear. Katie Roiphe Author
“ The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence. Ahmet Zappa Writer
“ My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it. Alan Lightman Physicist
“ There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. Anais Nin Author
“ Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding. Anne Hathaway Actress
“ 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 Novelist
“ My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present. Bharati Mukherjee Writer
“ Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel. Bob Woodward Journalist