Aesthetic Quote by Richard Flanagan

The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes…

— Ray Bradbury

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

— Emily Barton

It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been…

— Emily Barton

“Any writer must find it difficult to assess her own work honestly and objectively, so I can only say that I hope my books…

— Margaret Maddocks

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may…

— Ernest Hemingway

Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

— Jane Smiley

... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which…

— Elizabeth Bowen

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as…

— D. H. Lawrence

Novels are longer than life.

— Natalie Clifford Barney