Books Quote by Italo Calvino

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

— Arundhati Roy

The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.

— William Boyd

My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my…

— Pat Conroy

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

— Ellen Glasgow

One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead…

— Mikhail Sholokhov

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

— Anthony Horowitz

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which…

— Sven Birkerts

I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...

— Tony Goldwyn

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

— Nicholas Sparks