Books Quote by Virginia Woolf

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

“A novel is not an allegory...it is a sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the…

— Azar Nafisi

“While we read a novel, we are insane - bonkers.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do…

— Virginia Woolf

“To write an excellent novel, make the outcome of the story matter to the reader through the evolving relationships between well-designed characters.”

— Martin Sandforth

I hadn’t seen any novel make the statement that entering the workforce was like entering the grave. That from then on, nothing happens and…

— Michel Houellebecq

If there's one thing that can save the novel, it is to make it independent of cinema, to narrate in a way that cinema…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

I often use nameless places in my work as a way of allowing the readers to create more of the novel and to make…

— Mohsin Hamid

When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.

— Tayari Jones

[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and…

— Orson Welles

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of…

— Doris Lessing