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“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what…

— Susan Sontag

“We are what we love to read, and when we admit to loving a book, we admit that the book represents some aspect of…

— Nina Sankovitch

A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others.

— Richard Flanagan

“The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly different way”

— Carl Henegan

“The books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel far beyond…

— Ben Jacobs

“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books. They impress us with the conviction, that one nature wrote…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which…

— Sven Birkerts

“A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to sustain a…

— Jonathan Franzen

Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between…

— Jonathan Evison

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

— Howard Gordon

“Clearly she knew that between book lovers, a novel is not a novel is not a novel. It's a symbol, an offering -- and…

— Sara Nelson