Books Quote by Ben Dolnick

“I think we've had rather too much dirt rather than not enough. That's not a prudish English remark, but a statement of saturation. These…

— A.S. Byatt

Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with an economy…

— Beverly Cleary

Penelope Fitzgerald never fails to surprise: her language is clever and elegant, her settings are unusual, her characters are unpredictable, and I am always…

— Emma Healey

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

— John Burdett

Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring writers do…

— Ben Dolnick

“You're smiling. But you must know yourself, since you are a literary person, that the work of fiction is always a form of recovery…

— Raymond Federman

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

— Anais Nin

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

— Harold Bloom

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in…

— Karan Mahajan

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

— Joseph Joubert

There's definitely been a focus on the literary aspects of my music, and I always get a little cringey because I don't feel like…

— Julia Holter

I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.

— Claire Messud