Books Quote by Alan Lightman

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

— Claire Danes

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences…

— Mohsin Hamid

I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader.

— Jed Mercurio

As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist…

— Daniel H. Wilson

People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact,…

— Diana Gabaldon

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a…

— John Gardner

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us…

— Claire Danes

To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and they may all be…

— Per Petterson

A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is…

— Shane Warren Jones

I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good.

— Gillian Flynn

One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility…

— Kate Forsyth

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical…

— Cory Doctorow