Books Quote by Anonymous

As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read…

— Jonathan Lethem

The luxury of time to write, and the confidence to do so, make it easier for the more affluent and when the most decorated…

— Dawn Foster

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

— Pattiann Rogers

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

— Isabel Allende

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of…

— Carolyn See

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because…

— Mohsin Hamid

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a…

— Sophie Hannah

“The novelist might be greater possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and…

— William Dean Howells

The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

— Flannery O'Connor

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

— Alice Hoffman