Books Quote by Toni Morrison

I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing a properly…

— Neel Mukherjee

I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient.

— Robert Greene

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me.

— Sadie Jones

When I'm writing fiction, I'm sort of interested by the fact that somehow or other I can have the feeling of actually seeing things…

— Marilynne Robinson

When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day…

— Colin Firth

When my mother talked about her brother, there was this light in her eyes. I thought, 'This is the basis of a novel.'

— Per Petterson

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

— Tom Wolfe

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

— Ellen Glasgow

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

— Nora Ephron

We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.

— Janet Fitch