Author Quote by Carl Henegan

“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

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

— Ella Berthoud

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

— Jaime Buckley

“Novels are written—as life is lived—One Day At A Time.”

— Lawrence Block

“Besides being witty and funny and maybe the best novel ever written, it’s also the most perfect romance in all of literature and nothing…

— Shannon Hale

“This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live…

— Chrys Fey

“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

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“Maybe everyone does have a novel in them, perhaps even a great one. I don't believe it, but for the purposes of this argument,…

— Ann Patchett

“We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.”

— J.R. Rim

“life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction’s purpose,”

— Katie Kitamura

“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom