Books Quote by Azar Nafisi

“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.”

— Ella Berthoud

“There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.”

— Fran Veal

“Sometimes I wonder how I’d tell this if I didn’t have so many books rattling around inside me. The truth is both a vast…

— Julie Buntin

“... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the…

— Umberto Eco

“Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.”

— Sanhita Baruah

“Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about the world,…

— Alice Hoffman

“That, is the miracle of the stories. They make us realize that we are not alone in our folly and our loneliness, and our…

— Gurnam Singh Sodhi

“...novels do not begin the way you want them to, but the way they want to.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“I perceived with a sudden novel vividness the extraordinary folly of everything I had ever done.”

— H.G. Wells

“...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

“We live and breathe words. (...) It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest…

— Cassandra Clare

“What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths.”

— Julian Barnes