Impossible Quote by Graham Robb

“CHAPTER 2: THE GRACE-SHAPED LIFE 1. Jim Reimann, Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables (Nashville: Word Publishing, 2001), 16. 2. Ibid., 29–31.”

— Max Lucado

“Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables, forced himself to write by disrobing and giving his clothing to his valet with strict instructions that it…

— Wilma Davidson

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.

— John Logan

“Cable by Victor Hugo (then in exile) to his publisher, upon publication of Les Misérables : "?" The publisher's response: "!" ”

— Victor Hugo

“The World. Hugo had once told Nathaniel in Will's presence, was made by many men, but shaped by few. The important thing was to…

— Anonymous

Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines--an actress--say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and the soul's…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

“Good fiction can help us to expand our circle of empathy to include people unlike ourselves.- R' Eitan Levy”

— Eitan Levy

“Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. -…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

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

“Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.”

— Annie Murphy Paul

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability…

— Carl Henegan