Dreams Quote by John E. Stoll

“The novel is an event in consciousness. Our aim isn't to copy actuality, but to modify and recreate our sense of it. The novelist…

— George Buchanan

“Lawrence continues to be central in our postmodern period because he gives us the theoretical tools to understand why, exactly, a culture that privileges…

— Nidesh Lawtoo

“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest himself in…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“One sheds one’s sicknesses in books — repeats and presents again one’s emotions, to be master of them.’ DH Lawrence (The Letters of DH…

— Ella Berthoud

“Why does the same book elicit such a range of responses? There must be something in the particular reader that leaps out to embrace…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Thus the fundamental form-determining intention of the novel is objectivised as the psychology of the novel's heroes: they are seekers.”

— Georg Lukacs

“At the beginning, the author's writing was like a selfie: a disposable plea for attention that was all about him and his life. But…

— Steven Pressfield

“Novels expose man to the nuances of life through the thought process of their protagonists to form the foundation for its understanding and thus…

— B.S. Murthy

“He often acted out of impulse just so that he could then devote his leisure hours to mulling why; he relished self-analysis, though he…

— Eleanor Catton

“I only know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, of thoughts and affections; and I'm sensible of a certain doubleness…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It’s despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds.”

— Lara Biyuts

“...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for: they undermine…

— Elias Canetti