Books Quote by Robert Walser

“In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather…

— Milan Kundera

“Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.”

— Azar Nafisi

“Well, my story, surely, would furnish out a surprising kind of novel, if it were to be well told.”

— Samuel Richardson

“It was an irresistible novelty having a conversation about books with a stranger.”

— Jaclyn Dolamore

“The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal for perfection. Too long, sometimes too much like life.”

— Ian McEwan

“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what…

— Anne Tyler

“This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not…

— Arlaina Tibensky

“In life, you will hear many fantastical and astounding things, what is important is sorting out the fact from the fiction.”

— T.B. Christensen

“but you are very well aware that I belong to that remarkable class of authors who, when they are bearing anything about in their…

— Leslie S. Klinger

“That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy of Hello!…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Anything exceptional gets crushed by common people with jealousy and ignorance and all their common evils.”

— Corey Taylor