“life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction’s purpose,” — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
Religion, if it is genuine, is so profoundly interwoven with individual thought and experience that it is no more exhaustible than consciousness… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“In a book of fiction the purpose is to create, for myself, the kind of world I want and to live in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“There exist few things more tedious than a discussion of general ideas inflicted by author or reader upon a work of fiction.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
