Books Quote by Dan Simmons

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

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.

— Steve Erickson

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

— Henning Mankell

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

— Terence McKenna

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

— Richard Harris

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may…

— Ernest Hemingway

Science fiction writers aren't short of ideas. You can read a book, and it sets off a chain of thought processes, so it becomes…

— Alastair Reynolds

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

— Terry Pratchett

The only thing I knew about novels from a technical point of view was that they should have conflict.

— Diana Gabaldon

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

— Matthew Specktor