Books Quote by Howard Jacobson

Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.

— Jeremy Irvine

'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.

— Felicity Jones

Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced…

— Azar Nafisi

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

— Ernest Hemingway

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world…

— Anonymous

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the…

— Charles Colson

“I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best…

— Azar Nafisi

The joy of great fiction is that it transports the reader to another world, where new characters live in otherwise unimaginable ways. It is…

— Neal Katyal

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to lack as…

— Michelle Dean

All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial…

— Julia Glass

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.

— Eudora Welty