All kinds Quote by Teju Cole

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.

— Laila Lalami

“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that you belong…

— Wendy Lesser

For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous…

— Helen Keller

Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.

— Ian Mcewan

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of…

— Penelope Lively

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

Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures…

— Ben Lerner

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

— Jane Smiley

Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again,…

— Anonymous

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader…

— Louis L'Amour

Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey…

— Jeanette Winterson

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

— Edmond de Goncourt