Action Quote by Jane Austen

“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true…

— Anonymous

Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and…

— Julian Barnes

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

— Ella Berthoud

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

— Saul Bellow

“... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the…

— Umberto Eco

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.…

— Saul Bellow

“Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about the world,…

— Alice Hoffman

“Every so often, a novel comes along to remind us that what we hope is true, is true: that understanding is stronger than what…

— Gary Schmidt

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what…

— Susan Sontag

“Writing novels allows you to create your own world.”

— Norman Shabel

The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement…

— Jay Asher