Books Quote by Georg Lukacs

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

— Thomas Mann

“all writers, given adequate technique—technique that communicates—can stir our interest in their special subject matter, since at heart all fiction treats, directly or indirectly,…

— John Gardner

“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest himself in…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true…

— Anonymous

“And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to do is…

— Margaret Laurence

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

— Katie Kitamura

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

In the novels I most admire, there is this sense that, within the confines of the world, the possibilities are always opening in new…

— Laura van den Berg

“And form this kind of thought has emerged a new conclusion: which is that it is not only childish of a writer to want…

— Doris Lessing

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does not need…

— Edward Rutherfurd

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

— Graham Greene