Books Quote by Olga Tokarczuk

By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it a little…

— Zia Haider Rahman

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach…

— Agnes Repplier

Novels often thin themselves out to a watery hue - some even start that way - and at times seem to only ride along…

— David Means

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

— Henning Mankell

We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population…

— Zakaria Tamer

I would never, ever use a novel to do thinly disguised political information dissemination. For me, all these experiences, they sat in me, and…

— 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

Novels are a safe way to talk about things.

— Jay Asher

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

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

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

— Mario

“...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for: they undermine…

— Elias Canetti