Books Quote by Milan Kundera

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

— Ian Mcewan

“A good trap is like a good story: hidden and leading toward one inevitable conclusion”

— E.J. Patten

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

— Goldwin Smith

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

— Bille August

“The novel is a medium of profoundly serious investigation into the human case.”

— Ford Madox Ford

“A good trap, like a good story, has to arise naturally from the environment. It has to be seamless. If the prey suspects what’s…

— E.J. Patten

“A trap, like a good story, needs to hint at greater things without revealing them until the prey is snared.”

— E.J. Patten

“life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction’s purpose,”

— Katie Kitamura

“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel…

— John Franklin Bardin

For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.

— Mary McCarthy

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

— Ron Carlson