“All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.”
“All great novels are great fairy tales.”
“I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.”
“Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of novels at all, the good and the bad.”
“Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.”