Books Quote by Mason Cooley

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they…

— Elif Batuman

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

— Arundhati Roy

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

— Criss Jami

“The novel is, above all, an intense experience of prolonged intimacy with another consciousness.”

— Jane Smiley

“The novel is a hybrid genre and a large part of its charm arises from the alluvial nature of its materials. There is nothing…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

— Ellen Glasgow

This Is Not a Novel memorializes the treasures and detritus of one man's singularly cultured mind. (...) If you don't know Writer's work at…

— Michael Dirda

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.

— Norman Rush

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

“The book depicts thoughts, unveils imaginings, answers unspoken questions, clarifies doubts, resolves arguments, and finally reveals the very atoms of the most curiosity-driven desire.”

— Anonymous