Acting Quote by Chinua Achebe

“I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that…

— Chinua Achebe

Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.

— Ian Mcewan

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity…

— Frank Kermode

“...the point, the essential quality of the act of reading, now and always, is that it tends to no foreseeable end, to no conclusion.…

— Alberto Manguel

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader…

— Louis L'Amour

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

— Emily Barton

“What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from…

— Robert Edison Fulton Jr

“The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning.…

— Greg Weisman

“We all write fiction when we write about the past.”

— Stephen King

“(Novels are no use at all on days like these, they deal with people and their relationships, with themselves and others, fathers and mothers…

— Max Frisch