Arcadia Quote by Alexander Theroux

“Fictional Characters" Do they ever want to escape? Climb out of the white pages and enter our world? Holden Caulfield slipping in the movie…

— Danusha Laméris

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent…

— Janet Frame

“It is dangerous to condemn stories as junk which satisfy the deep hunger of millions of people. These books are not literary art, but…

— Judith Skelton-Grant

“Sooooooooo much literary fiction I get in the old query inbox is plotless. It's just a character musing about the vagaries and eccentricities of…

— Nathan Bransford literary agent

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.…

— Jose Saramago

“The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a…

— Paul Theroux

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents--were they the stuff of Literature?…

— Julian Barnes

“Tom Stoppard’s other work includes: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, After Magritte, The Real Thing, Enter A Free Man,…

— Tom Stoppard

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual…

— Raymond Queneau

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

— Jose Saramago

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

— Sara Sheridan