Books Quote by Andre Maurois

Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of…

— Andre Maurois

Just like all my novels, 'Illusion' is a good way to observe where Frank Peretti was in his life when he wrote it.

— Frank Peretti

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

— Patricia Cornwell

I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.

— Sergio Chejfec

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Now suppose that the clue experiences that can correct the illusion become for some reason increasingly scarce – perhaps because the dominant story itself…

— Val Plumwood

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

— Arthur Erickson

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

— Paul Auster

The novel remains a very special form for me.

— Howard Gordon

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

— Ellen Glasgow

It is important for me to discover the ideal title, for without this title the story or novel isn't quite in focus.

— Joyce Carol Oates

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.…

— Saul Bellow