Bible Quote by D. H. Lawrence

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as…

— D. H. Lawrence

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.…

— John Cheever

“The novel remains for me one of the few forms...where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether unpleasant struggle…

— John Cheever

“But sooner or later we find that not everything is to our liking in this book. It starts out sweet to our taste; and…

— Eugene H. Peterson

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

“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

It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.

— Norman Rush

“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

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them, or to…

— Michael Silverblatt

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes…

— Ray Bradbury

It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

— Pat Conroy