A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“I believe a family just isn’t complete without skeletons. My dearest momma clean bit off my daddy’s nose right around the time… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
To my ear, the term 'comic novelist' is as redundant and off-putting as the term 'literary novelist'. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“You can’t save anyone who wouldn’t save themselves without you. It’s the hardest lesson to learn in life, take it from me.” — Marc Jampole Copy Share Image
For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
For a decade, Emma-Lee Moss has been steadily making weird, moody, melancholic music under the moniker 'Emmy the Great' that has been… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
“Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text. — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the… — Gloria Gaither Copy Share Image
“Stepping forward, Girl stares out the doorway, into the sun. “I used to tread the world freely in Mira,” she smiles gently.… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
While today's fraternities are hardly the literary- and debate-inspired groups of yore, their core mission - or, at the least, their ideal… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
