Books Quote by Jonathan Lethem

Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces…

— F. Sionil Jose

Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to…

— Jose Saramago

“How truly novel. The emotional life of furniture. I never.”

— Gregory Maguire

Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more…

— Virginia Woolf

“All English stories get bogged down in whether or not the furniture is socially and aesthetically acceptable.”

— A.S. Byatt

No furniture is so charming as books.

— Sydney Smith

The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit…

— Alberto Manguel

Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done.

— John Dufresne

“No furniture is so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.”

— Sydney Smith

Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and…

— Edna Ferber

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may…

— Laurie Graham

I often use nameless places in my work as a way of allowing the readers to create more of the novel and to make…

— Mohsin Hamid