Books Quote by Ben Lerner

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.

— Jess Walter

I feel like in American fiction we're moving out of a period of intense irony, and I'm very glad about that. I feel like…

— Lauren Groff

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.

— Patricia Piccinini

There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

— Martin Parr

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find…

— Steven Pressfield

“Since ideology, particularly in it's shallower versions, is peculiarly destructive of the capacity to apprehend and appreciate irony, I suggest that the recovery of…

— Harold Bloom

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of…

— E. O. Wilson

I do sometimes miss doing that lighter, more humorous work, and I find there's a heavier responsibility that goes along with a literary reputation.…

— Alison Bechdel

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

— Michael Pollan

When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My…

— Alix Kates Shulman

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

— Mark Haddon

“The marriage of irony and sincerity helps us to take the perspectives of others: the racist, the exaggerated feminist, the conservative. Each ironic position…

— Hanzi Freinacht