Books Quote by Umberto Eco

“Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about the world,…

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Marc Levy

“A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.”

— Ella Berthoud

“Anyone who claims that truth is stranger than fiction has never gazed into a writer's mind, or read my stories.”

— Lucian Barnes

“we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours.”

— Thomas C. Foster

“It’s ironic that they swear to tell the truth on a book brimming with so many fictions, myths and errors.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather…

— Milan Kundera

“It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than than…

— Richard Wright

“Fiction is the most dangerous place in the world; that’s where truth lives.”

— Karina Szczurek

“This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories for. The…

— Tom Perrotta