Books Quote by John Green

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes…

— Ray Bradbury

There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not perfect. All…

— Margaret Atwood

The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are…

— Lev Grossman

The novel is a big space, and a lot can happen. Just think about the parts of your life. How do we account for…

— Rachel Kushner

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

— Henry David Thoreau

... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As…

— Richard Flanagan

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

— Sara Sheridan

My novels are never truly finished, even if they're published and sitting on the shelf. While I may no longer be interested in spending…

— Jillian Medoff

“But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel..…

— John Green

“We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect…

— C.K. Webb

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has…

— Terry Pratchett