Aids Quote by C. A. Bartol

Fiction that intends to be something other than entertainment has a certain obligation, I think, to convince the reader, every time, that what is…

— Alice McDermott

“If Shakespeare be considered as a MAN born in a rude age and educated in the lowest manner, without any instruction either from the…

— David Hume

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some…

— Alan Lightman

“A great number of elements in the characters’ lives, both psychic and factual, are not communicated to us. […] These characters, I believe, enjoy…

— Pierre Bayard

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

— Terry Eagleton

“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”

— Charles Simic

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being…

— Eudora Welty

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.

— Will Hobbs

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“...the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive enough to…

— Harold Bloom

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

— Gaston Bachelard