Beautiful Quote by Deborah Smith

“Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone, as I…

— Barry Lopez

“The young woman had read a good many novels, and she had seen a good many films; this education by newspaper, serial and film…

— Maurice Renard

It's an academic book, and it's discussed under academic criteria. German historians cultivate so-called objectivity. They persuade themselves that they can switch off the…

— Gotz Aly

“She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting down, and…

— Terry Pratchett

I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders, and many…

— Alexander Weinstein

“She learned that the best writing used dialogue almost in counterpoint to the visuals, so that what was heard was different from what was…

— Stephen Galloway

Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently…

— Edmund White

“I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best…

— Azar Nafisi

Since adolescence I've had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It's that German…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

The last thing I want is that sense of artifice - rather I want the reader drawn into the story and lost in it…

— Steve Erickson

I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the…

— Salman Rushdie

The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving…

— V. S. Pritchett