Business Quote by Doris Lessing

The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no…

— Anonymous

I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it…

— Richard Price

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

I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about…

— Steven Heighton

“The novel, of course, is an unequaled medium for the exploration of human social and emotional life. And there is evidence that just as…

— Terry Marselle

A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance…

— Michael Silverblatt

Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after…

— Honore de Balzac

I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

— Marianne Moore

Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work. For instance,…

— Patricia Rozema

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

For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here…

— D. H. Lawrence