Books Quote by George Buchanan

“The novel is, above all, an intense experience of prolonged intimacy with another consciousness.”

— Jane Smiley

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

— Angus Wilson

“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical…

— Marcel Proust

“How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the…

— Don DeLillo

“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true…

— Anonymous

Consciousness - that, to me, is the theme of the modern novel.

— Justin Cartwright

“The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader.”

— Paulo Coelho

“I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my own inner…

— Sven Birkerts

“What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.”

— Steve Maraboli

“But a good novel is first of all an event; as distinguished from the continuous rush of many sensations and the messy overlapping experiences…

— Anonymous

“The novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.”

— Ella Berthoud