Accounts Quote by Dennis Covington

“As always with the greatest works, the novel is so many-sided that over time it mirrors back the shifting concerns of those who read…

— Carl F. Hovde

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.…

— John Cheever

“But a good novel is first of all an event; as distinguished from the continuous rush of many sensations and the messy overlapping experiences…

— Anonymous

“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and”

— Neil Gaiman

“A great book does not have to be a literary masterpiece with complicated sentences and words no one has heard of. It has to…

— Amanda Mackey

“The greatest book ever composed was marked at one point unconventional. Also it was marked difficult to read and comprehend, especially in its original…

— Marcus G Monroe

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious…

— China Mieville

This Is Not a Novel memorializes the treasures and detritus of one man's singularly cultured mind. (...) If you don't know Writer's work at…

— Michael Dirda

“I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture…

— H Raven Rose

Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that have come…

— Stanley Unwin

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks…

— Ksenia Anske

I write to remind myself of the pain. My words represents the tears that have fell, the paper resembles the words and abuse I…

— Anonymous