Books Quote by Julian Barnes

“The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.”

— Wally Lamb

“Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.”

— Azar Nafisi

“This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not…

— Arlaina Tibensky

“... 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

“Like all good works of fiction, it lies like the truth.”

— Robert Crossley

“Fiction is as easy as telling a convincing lie. The more believable the better the story.”

— T.R. Wallace

“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

“A story is nothing but a lie. An illusion. And that illusion only works if we trust in it.”

— Anonymous

“Fiction is a lie covering up a deep truth.”

— Maria Vargas Llosa