Books Quote by Mark Rubinstein

“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

“When you start writing, you may think you will use the book to guide readers down certain paths and through certain themes. But, the…

— M.D. Cliatt

“...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

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

“But a good novel is first of all an event; as distinguished from the continuous rush of many sensations and the messy overlapping experiences…

— Anonymous

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks…

— Ksenia Anske

“I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have attended to…

— Dani Shapiro

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

“Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to sustain a…

— Jonathan Franzen

“Writing a novel is like having a dream.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.”

— T.L. Rese

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