Books Quote by Frank Peretti

My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream…

— Barbara Pym

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

“A story, whether it be novel, short fiction, screenplay, play or poetry or any form of non-fiction, is like an ecosystem in which everything…

— Andrew Binks

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave…

— Mark Millar

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

When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the…

— Ruth Ozeki

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

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

— Ellen Glasgow

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

— Sue Monk Kidd

“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

Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.

— Rita Mae Brown