Books Quote by Umberto Eco

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

— Umberto Eco

A book is a machine to think with.

— Anonymous

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

— Carlton Cuse

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

— Kathy Acker

“Fueled by the need to interpret the past, to explore the present, and to imagine the future, each generation shapes the world of books.”

— Pawan Mishra

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

— John Steinbeck

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

There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted if people…

— Emily Barton

Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write,…

— Hilary Mantel

It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.

— Mike White

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a…

— Donna Tartt

A novel is a performance you have to plan.

— John Darnielle