Acquire Quote by Umberto Eco

“A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop. You rest.…

— Anonymous

“A book is a living, breathing thing. It spends the first chapters of its life curled up in the mind, symbiotic with its creator…

— Emily Murdoch

“When you read a good book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it” —”

— Julia Barnes

“A novel is something that stands at the end of a lengthy process called writing. It is not a preexisting Platonic form embedded within…

— Victoria Nelson

In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how…

— Dana Spiotta

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get…

— Walter Mosley

“There comes a time when you have to lay the book down, stop thinking, talking and planning, and start doing.”

— Karl Vaters

“I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my own inner…

— Sven Birkerts

A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go…

— William Golding

“Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.”

— Chris Baty

“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“A great book is the one you dive in and swim until there is no air left, but you keep swimming, forgetting air, breathing…

— Ksenia Anske