Bible Quote by Marilynne Robinson

The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as…

— D. H. Lawrence

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is something for…

— John Drane

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills…

— Edmund White

Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

— Jane Smiley

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.

— Roy L. Smith

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

... 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

“The Bible is revolutionary, life-changing, extraordinary, eye opening, jaw-dropping, and downright amazing. It is filled with romance, tragedy, heroes, good and evil. There is…

— Courtney Joseph

“Writers more interested in literature than the truth ensure that they never come out with either thing — one reason that the word literature today sounds…

— The editors n+1

That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive…

— Anthony Lane

A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

— Salman Rushdie