Believe Quote by Sergio Chejfec

“Fiction in general holds little interest for me. Novels, in particular, arouse more suspicion than intrigue. It truly baffles me that any practitioner of…

— Dan Garfat-Pratt

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

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

— Angus Wilson

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

— Bonnie Friedman

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

— William Gibson

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

— Manuel Puig

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

— Simone de Beauvoir

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of…

— Andre Maurois

Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not…

— Akhil Sharma

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

— Henning Mankell