About Quote by Andrew Gross

Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful…

— Andrew Gross

Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the author has…

— Jane Smiley

The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they are entertaining,…

— Jane Addams

People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and…

— Philip Pullman

for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.

— Margaret Atwood

Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work. For instance,…

— Patricia Rozema

Unlike other books or TV shows or sometimes life, my narrative worlds are stripped of implicit moral centers. There is only what you bring.…

— Chris Abani

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect…

— Salman Rushdie

I'm being provided with some emotional ballast by giving me an intimate portrait of one character in particular in contrast to the collective. I'm…

— Joshua Ferris

the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live…

— Barbara Kingsolver