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“For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may…

— Roberto Bolaño

“This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all…

— Joseph Conrad

“fiction is both artifice and verisimilitude, and that there is nothing difficult in holding together these two possibilities.”

— James Wood

“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

“We draw our lines around these moments of pain, and remain upon our islands, and they cannot hurt us. They are covered with a…

— Neil Gaiman

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.”

— Ella Berthoud

“A writer will seal his own coffin, And the interests of readers will soften, If the author insists On the usual twists, And he…

— Mark Grenier

“The most buried treasures lie in the cemetery. There lies buried the dreams that never came true, the goals that were never reached, the…

— John E. DeJesus

“The whole story, paradoxically enough, strengthens our relish for real life. This excursion into the preposterous sends us back with renewed pleasure to the…

— C.S. Lewis