492 Quotes About Novels

Well, typically the state of hypnosis is perfected at the right combination of light and sound frequency when the mind completely relaxes. At this state, the mind also becomes highly suggestible, which means the word of the hypnotist becomes the new reality of the subconscious mind.

I guess you can call me "old fashioned". I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I may have to lick the tip of my fingers so that the pages don't stick together when I'm enraptured in a story that I can't wait to get to the next page. But nothing beats the sound that an actual, physical book makes when you first crack it open or the smell of new, fresh printed words on the creamy white paper of a page turner.

Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is.

---Sleeps through the washes of the morning's colors and the warm brilliance of sunrise. She sleeps in a world where she remembers, perfectly, every detail about her husband, this day, that sentence, another touch. She will remember it all in the deepest sleep, and lose it again the moment her eyes open and she wonders how late it must be for the sun to already be so high and then remembers, in the next instant, what happened the day before.

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

Everybody loves to hate a sinner; reading stories about them makes people feel better about themselves.

همه آدمها يك نيمه ىارند كه نه متعلق به خوىشان است نه دیگران. این نیمه فراری وقتی تحت عنوان غریضه و وجدان و از این قبیل، پیدایش شود خودش را از چند جای آدم بیرون می زند. این است که مجبورت می کند عاقل باشی یا مجنون. ....داستان آپارتمان معلق در شب

Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, ‘I want a man, not a preening peacock!

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.