Books Quote by Daniel Defoe

“The novels of Daniel Defoe are fundamental to eighteenth-century ways of thinking. They range from the quasi-factual A Journal of the Plague Year, an…

— Ronald Carter

Biography always has fulfiled this role. Robinson Crusoe is a biography, as is Tom Jones. You can go through the whole range of the…

— William Golding

He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.

— Stanley Walker

The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.

— Samuel Johnson

[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a…

— Emily Barton

Paulo Coelho is a very important writer, and I have discovered a lot about myself through his texts.

— Tarja Turunen

The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not so much…

— Zia Haider Rahman

“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s talents.”

— Joël Dicker

When I was ten and in fifth grade, I read all of 'Robinson Crusoe' in one weekend.

— Kevin Young

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

— Russell Lynes

in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.

— Susan Mitchell

“He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply…

— Andrew James Pritchard