Books Quote by James Baldwin

“A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of…

— Marcel Proust

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“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

I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'

— Bharati Mukherjee

“Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability…

— Carl Henegan

“This book is not for the delicate or for people who are convinced the world is fine just the way it is.”

— Wendy Hoffman

“life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction’s purpose,”

— Katie Kitamura

“Who would ever want to read a novel about a punk and a drunk! Everybody knew a couple or a dozen; they were not…

— Charles Jackson

“The book is a body and your mind will mold to its individual curves much in the way it will to any other lover--…

— Yxta Maya Murray

“This book is for the people who don't want to pick a single focus and abandon all their other interests. It's for the curious,…

— Emilie Wapnick

“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.”

— Ella Berthoud