“When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.”
David Lee Roth
“All I want is my own way in everything”
“One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.”
Gloria Naylor
“In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.”
Oscar Wilde
“I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?”
Irwin Shaw
“I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.”
Toni Morrison
“The fact of the matter is that the novel was never banned in Egypt in the first place.”
Mohamed Salmawy
