Books Quote by Italo Calvino

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

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses”

— Steve Aylett

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

— Randall Jarrell

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary…

— Mark Kurlansky

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if…

— Anonymous

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat

“few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

— Maurice Sendak

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

— Sarah Dessen