Books Quote by Margaret Atwood

A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.

— Isabel Allende

A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

— Catherynne M. Valente

Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

— Peter De Vries

“...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

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

— Wislawa Szymborska

The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality.

— Sylvia Plath

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

— Lois Lowry

Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the…

— Italo Calvino

Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.

— Megan Abbott

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

— Hosea Ballou

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