492 Quotes About Novels

I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said."And what is that?""They are not true.

Life is'nt about getting everything you want the instant you want it.Some thing are worth waiting for.

Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.

What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths.

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

If the shining sun blinds the eye,it makes sense. But to be blinded by gold and silver!

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to make nuanced judgments. And really to just make the planet look a bit richer when you go out into the street.

And she did what nobody thought of doing... she consulted Anne.