Books Quote by Andrew O'Hagan

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat

“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she herself has…

— Loretta H. Marion

The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't…

— Nicholson Baker

You give me the kind of feeling people write novels about.

— Obviously Me :p

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as…

— Christopher Koch

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the…

— Ann Patchett

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

— Henning Mankell

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.

— Joshua Mohr

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes…

— Ray Bradbury

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

— Jonathan Safran Foer