Books Quote by Banana Yoshimoto

“books, i think, are a different kind of time machine. instead of reminding you of a lost world, they create one for you. more…

— Neil Peart

“Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we…

— Neil Gaiman

“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

— V. S. Naipaul

It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the passage of…

— Laura van den Berg

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another to ignore…

— Will Schwalbe

“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us.…

— Anthony Horowitz

“The book is a body and your mind will mold to its individual curves much in the way it will to any other lover--…

— Yxta Maya Murray

Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life…

— Varley O'Connor

“I have some knowledge of the time that may be misspent, clinging to fictions and supposing them truths.”

— Sarah Waters

Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we…

— Neil Gaiman