Alone Quote by John Lanchester

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

— Danielle Steel

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

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

— Ellen Glasgow

An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.

— Will Hobbs

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

“Forget all those prescriptive ideas about "the novel" and "literature" and set down your feelings and thoughts as they come to you, freely, in…

— Haruki Murakami

The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it.

— Ned Beauman

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 for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which…

— Sven Birkerts

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

— Kim Edwards

A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from…

— Anne Fortier

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

— Jim Rohn