Book Quote by Donald E. Westlake

“Just when a jaundiced view of humanity was about to infect my soul with cynicism and resentment, fate dealt me the opposite hand to…

— Finn Murphy

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“Infinite Jest specifically: an endlessly, compulsively entertaining book that stingily withholds from readers the core pleasures of mainstream novelistic entertainment, among them a graspable…

— David Foster Wallace

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

— Mason Cooley

“The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the drama that…

— Albert Camus

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are…

— Martin McDonagh

“And no one moans: there is no anguish. Only our nocturnal silence when we crawl on all fours toward the fires that someone has…

— Roberto Bolaño

Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful…

— Edward Dahlberg

“He didn’t remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine,…

— Gregory Maguire

“When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates.”

— Robert McKee

“Like the playwrights of the Absurd, Woolrich recognized that a senseless story best mirrors a senseless existence.”

— Francis M. Nevins Jr