Arbitrary Quote by Harold Bloom

“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

“In literature, as in Life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others.”

— Andre Malraux

“circumstances determine our lives, but we shape our lives by what we make of our circumstances.”

— Sir John Wheeler-Bennet

“A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.”

— John L'Heureux

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

— John M. Ford

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...

— Alberto Manguel

“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things…

— Cheryl Strayed

Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not…

— Barack Obama

“If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and…

— David Denby

“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

— Donald Miller

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

— Jerome K. Jerome

“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