Books Quote by Claire Messud

I'm delighted when people respond with passion and readily intensity to my work. Literature is not as the economist would put it a positional…

— Ian Mcewan

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and…

— David Nicholls

I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for…

— Camilla Lackberg

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was…

— Mary MacLane

In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of writing that…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

— George Gissing

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily…

— Lynn Coady

I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.

— Whitley Strieber

I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about…

— Steven Heighton

I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.

— Jennifer Egan

Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more…

— Edward Abbey

“Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as…

— William Hurrell Mallock