Allegiance Quote by Garth Greenwell

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

— Manuel Puig

The 'stuff' in novels touches on every aspect of the world and people's lives. That's what makes it so remarkable just how little there…

— John Lanchester

“life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction’s purpose,”

— Katie Kitamura

I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a…

— Paule Marshall

A novel is not just a work of art: It is somehow a work of life as well.

— George P Elliott

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

One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead…

— Mikhail Sholokhov

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

— Oscar Wilde

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

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

— Leslie Fiedler

“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which…

— Sven Birkerts

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

— Henry James