Literary criticism Quote by C.S. Lewis

“What an interesting choice of words. “Not real, and never were.” Could there be any more appropriate literature for men of our profession? Why…

— Scott Lynch

“What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and fail again?”

— J.M. Coetzee

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright

“There are always struggles in writing. Anyone who denies this is either lying to themselves or you. Or they’re not faithful to their audience.”

— Phoenix Elvis Nicholson

“I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction…

— E.M. Forster

“When he describes woman, each writer discloses his general ethics and the special idea he has of himself; and in her he often betrays…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“fiction is both artifice and verisimilitude, and that there is nothing difficult in holding together these two possibilities.”

— James Wood

“trying to outrun the novelist’s most insidious enemy, which is doubt.”

— Stephen King

“I intend all my characters must escape from impossible situations; if they are not in trouble, then as a writer, I am.”

— Cleveland W. Gibson

“There’s plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But”

— Michael Robotham

“There’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and women we…

— Anne Lamott