Books Quote by Flannery O'Connor

“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.”

— Ella Berthoud

“The novel is, above all, an intense experience of prolonged intimacy with another consciousness.”

— Jane Smiley

“The novel is a hybrid genre and a large part of its charm arises from the alluvial nature of its materials. There is nothing…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

“A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you write on,…

— Dorothy Bryant

“All romantic novels end the same way, but it's the process of getting there that provides all the enjoyment.”

— Candice Hern

“A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the…

— John Irving

“Just because it's a novel--can't it also be different?”

— John Deaton

“She was a novel whose plot became more interesting as I delved deeper into the book.”

— Michael Baron

“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

“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the…

— Don DeLillo