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“The novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to…

— Guy Johnson

“the starting place for any powerful story must be the author himself. If a story doesn’t resonate first and foremost with you, why believe…

— K.M. Weiland

“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what…

— Susan Sontag

The successful writer listens to himself.

— Frank Herbert

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

— Bernard Malamud

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

— Cao Yu

“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant…

— Don DeLillo