Books Quote by Harlan Coben

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

— Helen Dunmore

A book should be made like a watch and sold like a sausage.

— Oliverio Girondo

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

“Think of literary fiction as a meal with intricate scents, flavors, and textures that you can’t recognize unless you chew with your eyes closed.”

— Jessica Bell

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

The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it…

— Stephen King

You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.

— Carmen Agra Deedy

It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what they imagined.…

— Craig Ferguson

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

— John Irving

The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's been described…

— Martin Amis

I come at it from a different angle of attack with each novel, searching for the technological texture the story demands. There isn't a…

— Alastair Reynolds