Argument Quote by Thomas Hardy

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

— Thomas Hardy

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

— Joyce Cary

“When one has read a book, I think there is nothing so nice as discussing it with some one else - even though it…

— C.S. Lewis

“Haven’t you learned you should never judge a book by its cover? There is a lot of assumptions you’ve made based on appearance.”

— S.J.D. Peterson

“never assume that just because you see something in a novel, it reflects the author’s own personality or interests.”

— Mark Pryor

“A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life: that, to begin with, constitutes its value, which is greater…

— Henry James

“I learned a long time ago to never judge a book by its cover. It seems what people try to represent on the outside…

— L.B. Simmons

“Being a writer, I'd never judged a book by its cover, but I suppose that the way a book carried itself gave you a…

— Lindsay Marene Ordone

“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

“Two things can keep the common reader going, argument or story. (Both are always involved, however subtly, in good fiction.)”

— John Gardner

“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and”

— Neil Gaiman

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy