Attention Quote by Adam Morris

I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does not need…

— Edward Rutherfurd

“Isn't that the essence of literature?...Our ability to identify with characters, no matter that they're separated from us by thousands of miles and hundreds…

— Paul Fleischman

A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction…

— Charles Baxter

Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice,…

— Napoleon Hill

One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an author. In…

— Robert Aris Willmott

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what,…

— Marcel Proust

“The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it…

— Jerome K. Jerome

I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything,…

— Simon Callow

The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement…

— Richard Wright

The novella is at once the most elegant and demanding form: a writer must balance the looseness of a novel with the concision of…

— Lauren Groff

“Who is the main character of this story?   How”

— Heidi Kreider

“In Murakami's short story 'The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day,' the main character is a writer. In describing the act of writing to…

— Aimee Bender