“Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Alexandre Dumas 123
French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer a… 1802–1870Related quotes

Introduction to an Omnibus edition of his work, as quoted in Somewhere in Time (1998), p. 318 - 319
On the generic Canadian novel, in the New York Times (29 December 1988).

“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.”
La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble à la vie.
Metella, ch. 1 (1833); Robert J. Ackerman Perfect Daughters (Deerfield Beach, Fla.: HCI, 2002) p. 31