Acquire Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“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 ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go…

— William Golding

Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book…

— Pat Conroy

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

— Margaret Bourke-White

The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end…

— Eudora Welty

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

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

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

— Julia Alvarez

It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience…

— Alan Lightman

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

— Michael Helm