Books Quote by Richard Dawkins

Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.

— Pam Houston

In novels, I said, people are transfigured by love. They’re elevated, made different, lifted out of their ordinariness…It’s not so much to ask, I…

— Anatole Broyard

Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of…

— Anatole Broyard

“Speaking of novels,’ I said, ‘you remember we decided once, you, your husband and I, that Proust’s rough masterpiece was a huge, ghoulish fairy…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition.

— Sissy Spacek

I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to…

— Richard Dawkins

I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.

— Philip Hensher

I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.

— Sergio Chejfec

“... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the…

— Umberto Eco

People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading…

— Karen Traviss

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to…

— Orson Scott Card

I love fiction and read novels constantly.

— Michael Imperioli