Books Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

“Let me hasten to add that I am not at all like Jane Eyre, who must have given hope to so many plain women…

— Barbara Pym

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“I believe I essentially remain what I have always been—a narrator, but one with extremely pressing personal needs. I want to introduce, I want…

— J.D. Salinger

“My story and my stories are all, in one or another, the same, tales of solitude and the grand pursuit of connection, of success…

— Michael Chabon

“Every story is ultimately about characters, and how they are affected by their adventure.”

— Chris Fox

“Mine could not be a story about the building of character, but about its erosion, about the slow accumulation of small forces and events…

— Gonzalo Munevar

“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have…

— Vittorio Vandelli

“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel is fiction.”

— Roxane Gay

“It's why I am a writer...To avoid the narrow mesh of Mrs Winterson's story I had to be able to tell my own.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that…

— Pat Conroy

“Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time. I would give everything to ensure the novel's survival.”

— Jasper Fforde