Books Quote by Haruki Murakami

A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side…

— Haruki Murakami

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.

— Gillian Flynn

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

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías

“Writing a novel and living a life are very much the same thing. The secret is finding the balance between going out to get…

— Ann Patchett

I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create,…

— Patrick Modiano

Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether…

— Gioconda Belli

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get…

— Walter Mosley

Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you…

— Etgar Keret

“...fiction writing is like duck hunting. You go to the right place at the right time with the right dog. You get into the…

— Ann Patchett

“Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it”

— Jason Calder