Books Quote by Anne Lamott

France lost a great novel last night.

— Victor Hugo

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in…

— Jim Harrison

“People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system. If the…

— Flannery O'Connor

I would like to stress this point undoubtedly: France sees the Arab Spring as auspicious. The Arab Spring holds out tremendous hope - hope…

— Alain Juppe

To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.

— Bonnie Friedman

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in…

— Lafcadio Hearn

Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland,…

— J. M. Coetzee

Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda.

— Olga Tokarczuk

There are high hopes of France and what they're trying to achieve there by liberalising the labour market and other reforms. You lose some,…

— Kersti Kaljulaid

Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the…

— Anna Quindlen

Despite the war, and bombings, and all the big things that happen to us, the stuff of our lives is small and always will…

— Robert Dessaix

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

— James M. Cain