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“Come To Me As You’re
I’ll Come To You As I’m
We Won’t Hide Truths
We Won’t Tell Lies
Come To Me, For Me
I’ll Come To You, For You”
― Pratibha Malav, If Tomorrow Comes

“We're not helpless. Novels are full of ragtag bands facing impossible odds.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“I wish that future novelists would reject the pressure to write for the betterment of society. Art is not media. A novel is not an 'afternoon special' or fodder for the Twittersphere or material for the journalists to make neat generalizations about culture. A novel is not Buzzfeed or NPR or Instagram or even Hollywood. Let's get clear about that. A novel is a literary work of art meant to expand consciousness. We need novels that live in an amoral universe, past the political agenda described on social media. We have imaginations for a reason. Novels like American Psycho and Lolita did not poison culture. Murderous corporations and exploitative industries did. We need characters in novels to be free to range into the dark and wrong. How else will we understand ourselves?”
― Ottessa Moshfegh

“Novels and stories give people the chance to experience countless lives.”
― Jamil Zaki, The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World

“Novels aren’t about heroes. They’re about us. The novel is a literary form that arose at the same time as the middle class in Europe, those people of small business and property who are neither peasant nor aristocrat, and it has always treated of the middle class. Both lyric and epic poetry grew out of a time that was elitist, a time that believed in the innate rate of royalty to rule and the rest of us to amount to not very much. Hardly surprising, then, that both forms lean toward the aristocratic in subject matter and treatment. The novel, on the other hand, isn’t about them; it’s about us.”
― Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form

“In short, he became so absorbed in his books that he spent his nights from sunset to sunrise, and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used to read about in his books, enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, wooings, loves, agonies, and all sorts of impossible nonsense; and it so possessed his mind that the whole fabric of invention and fancy he read of was true, that to him no history in the world had more reality in it.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha I

“People come to us...us novelists...looking for information about all the other people in the world; what we're thinking, what we need, what we dream about, what we hate, what makes us tick.... People are opaque, mysterious, even those dearest to us are closed books. If you want to know what people are like, if you want to know what's going on in their heads behind those masks we all wear then read a novel.”
― William Boyd, Trio

“But in general the people who I think would be moved by art, moved to change legislation, don't read novels, don't read poems, and don't really care that someone's written a book about a place like Dozier.”
― Colson Whitehead

“It isn’t about how many books you read. What counts is the books you re-read.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“اعطني بيت قديم مملوء بالذكريات Ùˆ سأعطيك مئات الروايات..”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A novel is not an allegory . . . It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don’t enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won’t be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“Count how many days you have lived! It's easy Math. You will soon realize the worth of living.”
― Umair Siddiqui, The Man Who Lived the Ages

“Body is the first novel to explore the journey to healthy body image and intuitive eating in a story readers can model.”
― Sean Coons, Body: or, How Hope Confronts Her Shadow and Calls the Flutter Girl to Flight

“More wisdom can be transmitted through a novel than a textbook.”
― Laurence Galian, Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!

“I consider my novels, amongst many other things, to be my political activism.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson

“I went into the dining-room, where four covered pots of soup stood on the table, and moved over to the bookshelves to the left of the fireplace. Here I kept two or three dozen works on architecture and sculpture, and a hundred or so plain texts of the standard English and French poets, stopping chronologically well short of our own day: Mallarmé and Lord de Tabley are my most modern versifiers. I have no novelists, finding theirs a puny and piffling art, one that, even at its best, can render truthfully no more than a few minor parts of the total world it pretends to take as its field of reference. A man has only to feel some emotion, any emotion, anything differentiated at all, and spend a minute speculating how this would be rendered in a novel—not just the average novel, but the work of a Stendhal or a Proust—to grasp the pitiful inadequacy of all prose fiction to the task it sets itself. By comparison, the humblest productions of the visual arts are triumphs of portrayal, both of the matter and of the spirit, while verse—lyric verse, at least—is equidistant from fiction and life, and is autonomous.”
― Kingsley Amis, The Green Man

“She wrote novels on paper napkins. Sometimes she scribbled on newspapers that the men in suits left behind and made her own poetry with the crossword templates on the back. She wouldn’t make a penny writing. If anything, she was losing pennies. That’s why they trust her art. Her poor, dirty, beautiful art.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“If you read a novel to the end, then it’s over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I’d much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound forever.”
― Koko Ogawa

“Novel writing, I’ve discovered, is the most liberating. You can write the narrative in the past, present, or future, and from virtually any viewpoint or philosophy, including your own. The only keeper you answer to is your own creativity. It’s total autonomy.”
― Don Roff

“And after the sack of Constantinople in 1204, we have few examples of any literary activity except by religious writers (who, like cockroaches, seem capable of surviving any catastrophe).”
― Steven Moore, The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600

“A reader is a traveler who doesn't have to move while travelling!”
― The Masked Bibliophile!

“As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

Staring impotently across a courtyard, at a loss for what to do; hearing the pertinacious rumbling of one's own stomach during a moment of love; betraying, yet lacking the will to abandon the glamorous path of betrayal; raising one's fist with the crowds in the Grand March; displaying one's wit before hidden microphones—I have known all these situations, I have experienced them myself, yet none of them has given rise to the person my curriculum vitae and I represent. The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. It is that crossed border (the border beyond which my own ‘Iâ€� ends) which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about. The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“We're separated as of this moment. We separate about every moon phase. It hasn't been your everyday Debbie Reynolds romance.”
― William Goldman, Magic

“You're an undeniable morsel, and I can't imagine you having an adverse effect on the general public.”
― William Goldman, Magic

“Just like a footprint in the sand, things sink only where they need to, everything else just floats.”
― Douglas Vigliotti, Tom Collins: A 'Slightly Crooked' Novel

“She’s stuck in my mind like gum on a shoe. Even after you scrape it, small remnants linger, just hoping the rain will wash it away, but knowing the cold, hard ground will only embed it.”
― Douglas Vigliotti, Tom Collins: A 'Slightly Crooked' Novel

“Last week, I was the golden goose and this week I’m the golden dipshit.”
― Douglas Vigliotti, Tom Collins: A 'Slightly Crooked' Novel

“We share a laugh and it is our last. The rest of the night is spent howling like two wolves while confetti pours down from the moon.”
― Douglas Vigliotti, Tom Collins: A 'Slightly Crooked' Novel

“In Miami, there’s a natural sex appeal that drips into the water supply. It taps the city’s main vein and leaks out of every pore. You can’t escape it.”
― Douglas Vigliotti, Tom Collins: A 'Slightly Crooked' Novel

“Sometimes people flash into your life like a shooting star and remind you of all the possibilities that exist.”
― Douglas Vigliotti, Tom Collins: A 'Slightly Crooked' Novel