Books Quote by Tony Hillerman

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and…

— Iris Murdoch

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

— Paul Kingsnorth

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on…

— Antonya Nelson

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

— Ernest Dimnet

Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.

— Anna Journey

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

— Jim Hodges

I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount of external…

— Kem Nunn

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

— Anonymous

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the…

— William Morris

“As a writer you must keep a tight rein on your subjective self—the traveler touched by new sights and sounds and smells—and keep an…

— William Knowlton Zinsser

A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used,…

— Franklin Carmichael