Books Quote by Nicole Krauss

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

It's hard to describe why one room and not another feels right for writing. Of course you have to train yourself to be able…

— Naomi Alderman

I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself…

— Gregory Allen Howard

It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car,…

— Robert Harris

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and…

— Joan Didion

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In a novel,…

— Howard Gordon

“A novel works it's magic by putting a reader inside another person's life. The pace is as slow as life. It's as detailed as…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us.…

— Eileen Myles

Writing is akin to method acting. Before the writer can render a fully convincing world, he or she must inhabit that world, and every…

— Richard North Patterson

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the…

— Fernando Pessoa