Books Quote by Salman Rushdie

“The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all,…

— Carlos Fuentes

“The privilege is not writing a novel, it's to have someone read it. When you look at it that way, you realize the responsibility…

— Javier A. Robayo

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

— W. E. B. Griffin

The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.

— Milan Kundera

“A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and…

— Lois Lowry

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the fear &…

— Shomprakash Sinha Roy

“While the subject matter is lynching, on a deeper level, this novel is about identity. Whom and what we identify ourselves with determines our…

— Julius Lester

“It is a book that challenges the reader to action, and in taking that action, to greater service to themselves, their families, their communities,…

— Bob P. Buford

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

— Anita Brookner

“Struggle shapes our character. And character dictates what we will become.”

— Jeff Goins

“Is it the freedom of characters in fiction that we find so inspiring, or the way that freedom transforms them?”

— Marc Levy