Books Quote by George Gissing

“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

“To my mind, the most important thing in any form of fiction is the human element, but only if it takes us beyond the…

— Graham Worthington

“How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these? Where are the things that novelists seize…

— Wallace Stegner

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

“I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those…

— Will Schwalbe

“People say everybody has a book inside them, so why not make your life a great story?”

— Martha Louise Hunter

Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and…

— Julian Barnes

“I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream…

— J.R. Moehringer

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

“WHy bother to write if it isn't disturbing, banal, beautiful, hardcore, cutting edge and savage, and melts a readers mind because they see something…

— Jane Brooke

“The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as…

— Anne Edwards

“I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether;…

— P. G. Wodehouse