Books Quote by Hanne Blank

“I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.”

— Pushpa Rana

“Fiction is a world where only the reader enjoys”

— Mbutoh

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

— Marc Levy

“Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place of fiction.”

— Ben Mezrich

“The love for stories is sometimes portrayed as a self-centered, individualistic concern. But if story-grip stems primarily from an interest in other lives, then…

— Douglas M. Jones III

“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she…

— Sheldon Friedman

“The value of a novel is not limited to its depiction of emotions and people akin to those in our own life; it stretches…

— Alain de Botton

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman

“Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate them with…

— Hal Duncan

“Unable to explore setting, conflict, characters or themes in their fiction, the mainstreamers wrote more and more eloquently about nothing at all.”

— Dave Wolverton

“The fictions were far more persuasive than the facts, and more persuasive than both was the longing to be caught up in a mass…

— Roger Scruton

“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