About Quote by Patrick O'Brian

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

— Ian Mcewan

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

— Werner Herzog

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

— Frank Norris

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

— Ford Madox Ford

The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration…

— Dana Spiotta

The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they…

— Elif Batuman

“The novel, of course, is an unequaled medium for the exploration of human social and emotional life. And there is evidence that just as…

— Terry Marselle

What we know about writing the novel is the novel.

— Eudora Welty

I'm not for it [Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron ], I'm not against it, I'm just interested in it and how it…

— Emily Barton

“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant…

— Don DeLillo

The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I…

— George Dzundza