About Quote by Bharati Mukherjee

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

“A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life: that, to begin with, constitutes its value, which is greater…

— Henry James

“Good writing is made up of characters who are bigger than their circumstances.”

— Michael Knight

“You can’t write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they’re called literary novels.”

— Ken Follett

“Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers.”

— Jaime Buckley

“That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.”

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Marc Levy

Novels are longer than life.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself

— Philip Larkin

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be…

— Diane Johnson

“The novelist might be greater possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and…

— William Dean Howells

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías