Books Quote by Don DeLillo

“How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the…

— Don DeLillo

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to…

— Jodi Picoult

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.

— Raymond Carver

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her…

— Annie Proulx

Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum that makes…

— Ivan Klíma

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her…

— Annie Proulx

“Literature is a source of pleasure, he said, it is one of the rare inexhaustible joys in life, but it's not only that. It…

— Laurence Cossé

“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and…

— Annie Dillard

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat

There's no better feeling as a writer than to see your piece going beyond what you can have ever imagined. And a wonderful way…

— Tom Kitt

Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you…

— Neil Cross