Book Quote by Anne Tyler

I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

— Anna Quindlen

“I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have attended to…

— Dani Shapiro

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

— Rick Moody

I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to…

— Patricia McCormick

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

— Sandra Cisneros

Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

A good novel editor is invisible.

— Terri Windling

I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.

— Flannery O'Connor

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

— Ellen Glasgow

“I'm constantly trying to make what Stephen King called head movies or skull movies: things should be playing out on the inside of your…

— Clive Barker

A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction…

— Charles Baxter