Books Quote by Tao Lin

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

— Barbara Pym

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

— Sydney Pollack

A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others.

— Richard Flanagan

“Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it’s merely the latest in…

— Thomas C. Foster

Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers…

— Paul Auster

Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if you don't…

— Joan Didion

“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which…

— Sven Birkerts

I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I work hard…

— Jay Neugeboren

A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

— Jane Austen

“Novels expose man to the nuances of life through the thought process of their protagonists to form the foundation for its understanding and thus…

— B.S. Murthy

“Writing novels allows you to create your own world.”

— Norman Shabel

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

— Margaret Bourke-White