Books Quote by Stephen Fry

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

— George Sand

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive…

— Theodore Dalrymple

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he…

— Bernard DeVoto

“life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction’s purpose,”

— Katie Kitamura

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do…

— Julien Green

Life is but an open Book, with many pages to fulfill. It is soely upon oneself to which the pages shall read. For someday…

— Mike D

Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits…

— Jonathan Raban

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality…

— Michel Houellebecq

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

— Javier Marías

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a…

— Luigi Pirandello

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their…

— Vanna Bonta

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

— Henry James