Books Quote by Noah Berlatsky

“The thing [Henry James'] novel is about is always there. It is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with…

— H.G. Wells

“Good horror fiction deals with taboos. It must always go to the limits of what is acceptable.”

— Clive Barker

“The romance of danger and adventure in forbidden places.”

— Jason M. Hough

“You enter a novel as you enter a house of strangers not knowing who you may meet or what might happen. Like a mirror…

— Chloe Thurlow

“A book from a nearby shelf tumbled to the ground and the pages rustled a moment before settling. I bit my lip, debating. If…

— Lani Woodland

“A room without books makes book-lovers shudder”

— Cicero Tabitha

“The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader.”

— Paulo Coelho

“The novel is, above all, an intense experience of prolonged intimacy with another consciousness.”

— Jane Smiley

“A book is like a trapdoor that leads to a secret attic: You can open it and go inside. And your world is different.”

— Antonio Iturbe

“The intimacy of the detail - why The Silence of the Lambs is quite possibly the Thriller Writer's bible.”

— Thomas Harris

“We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?”

— Rick Yancey

“That was what happened to a man in the end: the stuffy room, the wakeful children, the Saturday night movements from the other bed.…

— Graham Greene