Books Quote by Arthur Keith

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

— Jane Austen

“Writing novels allows you to create your own world.”

— Norman Shabel

We live in the best of worlds. But still, it's like we've lost something on the way to here: a sense of life. I…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on…

— Cornelia Funke

“Fiction is a world where only the reader enjoys”

— Mbutoh

“Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as…

— Alan McCluskey

Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between…

— Rebecca L. Walkowitz

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these…

— Ira Glass

The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.

— Vikram Chandra

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how…

— Dean Koontz

One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead…

— Mikhail Sholokhov

The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor is created…

— Alberto Manguel