Books Quote by Brandon Sanderson

At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think…

— Tea Obreht

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

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

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true.…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

— Anita Brookner

I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason…

— Terry Goodkind

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where…

— John Green

In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us deep into…

— Junot Diaz

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

— Jean Craighead George

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks…

— Ksenia Anske

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin