Books Quote by Michael Helm

Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

— Mohsin Hamid

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

— Henning Mankell

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

“Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to sustain a…

— Jonathan Franzen

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.

— Megan Abbott

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be…

— Diane Johnson

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

— Arundhati Roy

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

— John Irving

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

— Henry James

A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go…

— William Golding