Arrows Quote by C.E. Morgan

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

— Howard Gordon

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

— Daniel Craig

“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

Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a…

— Herta Muller

A novel should tell a story, be a pleasure to read, and at the same time it should be thought-provoking, even a bit instructive.

— Olga Tokarczuk

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

— Jeanne Henry

“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

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and…

— John M. Ford

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's…

— Truman Capote

“One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.”

— Alain de Botton

Whenever one writes a book one should have a notional reader in mind.

— Sadakat Kadri

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

— Jami Attenberg