Book Quote by Robert Walser

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

— Margaret Bourke-White

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

— Patrick Modiano

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I…

— Paul Auster

All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and…

— Zadie Smith

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the…

— Ann Patchett

The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a…

— Aleksandar Hemon

A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.

— Janet Fitch

All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.

— Donald Miller

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

— Madeleine L'Engle

In my experience, a novel is the culmination of various thoughts and impressions collected over time, until something comes along to give them a…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

The novel remains a very special form for me.

— Howard Gordon