Books Quote by Thomas Hardy Download Open image ““A novel is an impression, not an argument.”” — Thomas Hardy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Logic
A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“never assume that just because you see something in a novel, it reflects the author’s own personality or interests.” — Mark Pryor Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Two things can keep the common reader going, argument or story. (Both are always involved, however subtly, in good fiction.)” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.” — Marc Levy Copy Share Image
“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She was in a sound sleep, Jude, dying of anxiety lest she should have caught a chill which might permanently injure her, was glad… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It was mid-May time, bringing with it weather not, perhaps, quite so blooming as that assumed to be natural to the month by the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It being the first time in his life that he had touched female fingers under water, Dick duly registered the sensation as rather a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“As soon as she could discern the outline of the house, it had all its old effect upon Tess's imagination. Part of her body… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
