“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I haven't the stature to critique one of our literature's great novels, Tobias; and I'm not one of those who believe The… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
“We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign.… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
“I also once heard that if you have enough good ideas for three or four great novels, then what you probably have… — Darren White Copy Share Image
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
There is always something of the writer in the work but I don't think Melville had to be swallowed by a whale… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
“Yet sometimes Renaissance Souls don’t feel so lucky. Despite a long and proud history of Renaissance Souls who’ve negotiated treaties, invented revolutionary… — Margaret Lobenstine Copy Share Image
“Something else apart from this heady fusion draws us in to Nile Shadows, though, and that’s a certain compulsive quality that, as… — Edward Whittemore Copy Share Image
“If AP English via Miss Sweeney had taught Flannery anything, it was that life was brimming with various traumas and tragedies—the great… — Mary O'Connell Copy Share Image
A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“Fiction had never been Jackson's thing. Facts seemed challenging enough without making stuff up. What he discovered was that the great novels… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Do we consider that anything goes, that we have no responsibility towards others but only for satisfying our needs? Well, that is… — azar nafisi Copy Share Image
The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“It is the sex of the novels and not that of their authors that must interest us. All great novels, all true… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love about writing novels is that it really doesn't matter what next step you take as… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
