Books Quote by Alexander Smith

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

— Ronald Blythe

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

— Anonymous

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

— Jules de Goncourt

“My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.”

— Kit Reed

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what…

— Martin Amis

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

— Don DeLillo

When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on…

— Diana Gabaldon

“A couple hours went by, and the storm began to turn back to the sea. The dark clouds rolled away, leaving white, fluffy ones…

— Joseph McGinnis

You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more…

— Neil Gaiman

Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating to me…

— Christine Jennings

There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a…

— Don DeLillo

I don't impose political responsibilities on my fiction. The last thing I would ever want to do, for example, is write a novel that…

— Francisco Goldman