Books Quote by Milan Kundera

“Literature is the real life of imaginary people.”

— Stefanos Livos

“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.”

— Franklin P. Adams

“A good novel is the biography of an imaginary person--and when the biography is completed, the person is no longer imaginary; he is as…

— William Edmund Barrett

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

— Franklin P. Adams

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.

— Edward Abbey

As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's…

— David Ignatius

“The novel is an event in consciousness. Our aim isn't to copy actuality, but to modify and recreate our sense of it. The novelist…

— George Buchanan

A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces…

— Laura Miller

“...the experience of reading a novel has certain qualities that remind us of the traditional apprehension of mythology. It can be seen as a…

— Karen Armstrong

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

— Ellen Glasgow

“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which…

— Sven Birkerts

The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

— Norman Mailer