Books Quote by Mohsin Hamid

The novel's not the best form for disposing ideas, though that's one thing it can do. It likely is the best form, though, for…

— Michael Helm

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

— Edith Wharton

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.

— Chad Harbach

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger,…

— Paul Auster

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

— Matthew Specktor

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.

— Asa Larsson

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

— Angus Wilson

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

— John Irving

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Until a book starts forming in your head, you always wonder, 'Am I going to be able to do this again?'

— George Pelecanos

We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if…

— Alain de Botton