Books Quote by Naomi Benaron

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

— Mohsin Hamid

“Like Leontius, the young Athenian in Plato, I presume that you are reading this because you desire a closer look, and that you, too,…

— Philip Gourevitch

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

— Michael Crichton

All the Midkemia stories are part of a 'history of an imaginary place,' so I've always known the cycle covered five rift wars. I…

— Raymond E. Feist

The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are…

— Aaron Huey

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her…

— Annie Proulx

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her…

— Annie Proulx

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

— Don DeLillo

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

— Randall Jarrell

“When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our…

— Mizuki Nomura

It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially…

— Paul Di Filippo

“The novel moves through war, separation, birth, death, deceit, and love, illustrating again and again how people's actions, even the seemingly selfless ones, are…

— Amazon Books Editors