Death Quote by Amazon Books Editors

“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true…

— Anonymous

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

— Ron Carlson

“The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly different way”

— Carl Henegan

“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.”

— Ella Berthoud

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts as well…

— Ian Leslie

“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.”

— Wally Lamb

“And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to do is…

— Margaret Laurence

“A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.”

— Mark Rubinstein

A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

— Jane Austen

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies,…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman