Books Quote by Ray Bradbury

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether…

— Gioconda Belli

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be…

— Diane Johnson

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a…

— Richard Wright

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

I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As…

— Richard Flanagan

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

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to sustain a…

— Jonathan Franzen

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

— Henning Mankell

“Best or worst, novels are all the same. Nothing but love, love, love; what silly nonsense it is! Why don’t people write about the…

— George Gissing

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never…

— Thomas C. Foster