Begin Quote by Robert Creeley

For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction…

— William Golding

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living…

— Mike Mills

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.…

— Jose Saramago

Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and…

— Deb Caletti

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them…

— Walter Kirn

The origin of each story is unique.

— Kate DiCamillo

“Even if we never read a second volume of a book, the characters continue to live on and on and on, and their stories…

— Cat Winters

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people…

— Harold Brodkey

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

— Jose Saramago

Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship to it.

— Jeanette Winterson