Books Quote by Frederick Wiseman

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

— Claire Danes

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

— Paul Auster

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

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

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

— Elizabeth George

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

— Chris Cleave

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical…

— Cory Doctorow

I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense…

— A. B. Yehoshua

I don't very often read novels.

— Sidney Poitier

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

— Alison Pill

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

— Tom Wolfe