Books Quote by Jay Neugeboren

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

— Nicholas Sparks

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

— Ellen Glasgow

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call…

— Haruki Murakami

The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I try to…

— Nicholas Sparks

That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.

— Pearl Cleage

I am touched by my readers who loved my books. All the stories are true incidents in life. Now I have realised, any amount…

— Sudha Murty

“The magic in writing is not so much using your imagination as it is allowing the reader to uses theirs. When I write a…

— Carl Henegan

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

— Alice Hoffman

If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation…

— Karen Armstrong

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived…

— Rachel Cusk