Authors Quote by Alok Mishra

“A great book does not have to be a literary masterpiece with complicated sentences and words no one has heard of. It has to…

— Amanda Mackey

“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“As always with the greatest works, the novel is so many-sided that over time it mirrors back the shifting concerns of those who read…

— Carl F. Hovde

“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they…

— Janna Malamud Smith

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

— Edward Abbey

“I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify…

— Toni Morrison

“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

“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.”

— John P. Marquand

“few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“1 )Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when…

— Italo Calvino