Books Quote by Carmen DeSousa

“We are in an era of distrust, disconnection and detachment”

— Tom Fletcher

“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

“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

“I did worry at one stage that all my stories seem to revolve around secrets, lies and self-deception, but then I realized that most…

— Jane Lovering

“Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.”

— Chloe Thurlow

“Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before.”

— Zadie Smith

“The problem lies not with the characters within the novel, but with the reader itself.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Life is like a good book; There is bound to be typos and errors in it, but the only ones that noticed them are…

— Gillian Duce

“We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.”

— Henry James

“A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the…

— John Irving

“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.”

— John P. Marquand

“... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the…

— Umberto Eco