Body Quote by Rebecca Wells

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

— Angus Wilson

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or…

— Sam Abell

A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing half the…

— Noah Hawley

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

— Alan Bennett

“...a book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word into…

— Joe Meno

A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word to…

— Joe Meno

The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's been described…

— Martin Amis

It's like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination are even…

— Jack Gantos

No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives…

— Northrop Frye

In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in my head…

— Isabel Allende

Books build a stairway to your imagination, that one day may become a Reality, with knowledge obtained through books.

— Andrew Guzaldo

When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong…

— Nancy Pearl