Books Quote by Patricia Hickman

“The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal for perfection. Too long, sometimes too much like life.”

— Ian McEwan

“The problem lies not with the characters within the novel, but with the reader itself.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Some love stories remains incomplete and then we complete them by giving a form of novel”

— Pulkit Gupta

“Misunderstanding and distrust—the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.”

— Carmen DeSousa

“The point of a story is never about the ending, remember. It’s about your character getting molded in the hard work of the middle.”

— Donald Miller

“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they…

— Janna Malamud Smith

“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“But a good novel is first of all an event; as distinguished from the continuous rush of many sensations and the messy overlapping experiences…

— Anonymous

“...ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That's…

— Shandy L. Kurth

“One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.”

— Alain de Botton

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect…

— C.K. Webb