Bland Quote by Dave Abrams

It's disingenous for me to say that I wasn't trying to write a moral novel. By its very nature as a novel about the…

— Dave Abrams

Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying…

— Holly Valance

All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.

— Felice Picano

I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try…

— John Updike

The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince…

— Lynn Coady

Any time you read a book and get attached to the characters, to me it's always a shock when it goes from page to…

— Suzanne Collins

I've long come to the conclusion that when people say they can't put a book down, they don't mean they're interested in what's happening…

— David Malouf

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

— Po Bronson

I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though…

— Laurie Foos

Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know that we…

— Joseph Brodsky

It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of times, you…

— Alissa Nutting

My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel that flipping…

— Leslie Pietrzyk