Books Quote by Will Hobbs

A novel usually begins, in my experience, with a thought or image that won't leave me alone.

— John Lanchester

In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in…

— Laura Esquivel

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

— Danielle Steel

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

— Daniel Craig

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

— Albert Camus

I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

— Alfred Hitchcock

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

— Jim Rohn

One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what…

— Martin Filler

I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being....It happens because the…

— Murasaki Shikibu

Why would a novel - which is all about the inward processes of people's developing feelings and developing relationships - why would you be…

— Sebastian Faulks

A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing half the…

— Noah Hawley

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of…

— Raymond Chandler