Books Quote by Helen Dunmore

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

A novel means a new way of doing a story

— Romesh Gunesekera

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

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

— George Saunders

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

— Jeff Bezos

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

— John Green

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

— Kathy Acker

A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others.

— Richard Flanagan

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

— Walker Percy

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

“Writing a novel is like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces aren't even fixed in shape. Yet, somehow, they all come together…

— Jyoti Arora

“The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They…

— Ursula K. Le Guin