Great Novels Quotes

Great Novels Quote of the day

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

They say great themes make great novels

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the 21st century.

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

All great novels are great fairy tales.

[A] great novel will allow you to transcend the social, racial and political limitations imposed by the vicissitudes of life and to find a deep fraternity based on empathy.