Accurate 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

Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word.…

— Jonathan Tropper

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a…

— Aleksandar Hemon

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

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

— Ernest Dimnet

I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like…

— Umberto Eco

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But…

— Ruth Park

I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a…

— Sophie Hannah

“Every book tells a different story to the person who reads it. How they perceive that book will depend on who they are. A…

— Charles de Lint

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

A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been…

— Emily Barton