Books Quote by Anna Quindlen

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by…

— Maxine Cheshire

For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels, I was…

— Nicole Krauss

“Your real home is where your soul lives, not where your body lives! If your body is in a concrete house in the city…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

— Michael Dirda

I've also never written about home in this way before. I guess a lot of it is subconscious and I am intuitively making these…

— Jesmyn Ward

“But the truth is, home's an illusion. We try to create this place that's supposed to make us feel happy or safe, when in…

— Suzanne Brockmann

What really makes a home a home is seeing the books of whoever lives there.

— Antonia Lofaso

One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real…

— Joanne Harris

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

— Sara Sheridan

You can live in a house, but your real home is inside you.

— Leonard Jacobson

Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.

— Jackie French