Books Quote by Ishmael Reed

Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.

— Arundhati Roy

Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't…

— Alexander McCall Smith

To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and they may all be…

— Per Petterson

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may…

— Ernest Hemingway

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

— Dave Eggers

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things,…

— Ned Vizzini

Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“It’s a novel, right? What’s it about?” Why did people ask “What is it about?” as if a novel had to be about only…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be…

— Diane Johnson

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

— Michael Crichton

We live in a sea of general ideas, so that's not a novel, since there are so many general ideas. But the moment a…

— Chinua Achebe

Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.

— Anonymous