Books Quote by Emily Barton

In my experience, a novel is the culmination of various thoughts and impressions collected over time, until something comes along to give them a…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

A novel means a new way of doing a story

— Romesh Gunesekera

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

— John Green

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

— Emily Barton

A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go…

— William Golding

A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others.

— Richard Flanagan

A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from…

— Anne Fortier

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

A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a…

— Deborah Moggach

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

“A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.”

— Mark Rubinstein