Novel Quote by Michael Ondaatje

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

— Jorge Luis Borges

“...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

“books, i think, are a different kind of time machine. instead of reminding you of a lost world, they create one for you. more…

— Neil Peart

When a book's pattern and the shape of its inner life is as plain to the reader as it is to the author --…

— Doris Lessing

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.

— Iris Murdoch

“When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things, and you get the…

— Roald Dahl

“Insomuch as the structure of this book parallels that of my own mind, it boasts about as much order and linearity as a hallucination.”

— Melody Moezzi

To me, something that's beautiful in terms of a book is something that lives inside the reader both as a discrete and complete thing,…

— Sheila Heti

If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.

— Chloe Grace Moretz

In a film we have limited time and space to say what we have to, hence the visual language and brevity needs to be…

— Kanika Dhillon

I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten…

— Joan Didion

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something…

— Josh Radnor