Book Quote by V. S. Naipaul

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.…

— V. S. Naipaul

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

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

A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been…

— Emily Barton

Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

— Jane Smiley

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in…

— Rachel Joyce

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

— Julian Barnes

Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life…

— Varley O'Connor

The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.

— Peter Heller

The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them ahead of…

— Elizabeth Berg

“...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

Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper,…

— Tahir Shah