Attitude Quote by Milan Kundera

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question,

— Milan Kundera

“My message will be very clear; it is that I think we have to continue to read novels. Because I think that the novel…

— Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

“... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the…

— Umberto Eco

“It is a wise writer who knows his own subconcious." And not only knows it but lets it speak of the world as it…

— Ray Bradbury

“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what…

— Susan Sontag

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From…

— Jeff VanderMeer

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of…

— Carolyn See

No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world,…

— Anonymous

“At the heart of the novelist's craft lies an optimism which thinks that the knowledge we gather from our everyday experience, if given proper…

— Orhan Pamuk

“A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When Don Quixote…

— Milan Kundera

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

— Félix J. Palma

“How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the…

— Don DeLillo