Books Quote by Edwidge Danticat

In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about…

— Adam Braver

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important…

— Nina Bawden

The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that, we learn…

— Katherine Paterson

I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters…

— Mohsin Hamid

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

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if you don't…

— Joan Didion

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to…

— Susie Bright

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover…

— Frederick Wiseman

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

— Henning Mankell

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I like to…

— Kanye West

We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they…

— Libba Bray