Books Quote by Richard Dawkins

Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.

— Flannery O'Connor

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

— Henning Mankell

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

— Claire Danes

I think of my novels as entertainments.

— Anonymous

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

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

— Mario

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

— Elizabeth George

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

— Alison Pill

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

— Richard Harris

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 deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense…

— A. B. Yehoshua

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

— Sue Monk Kidd