Beauty Quote by E. M. Forster

“...perhaps the sweetest moment in writing is the arrival of that idea for a book which never has to be written, which is never…

— Julian Barnes

“...and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it up like…

— Marcel Proust

No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world,…

— Anonymous

“He has described in precise, measured words the beautiful desolation he feels at the close of novels where the message is that there is…

— Diane Setterfield

“The book is a body and your mind will mold to its individual curves much in the way it will to any other lover--…

— Yxta Maya Murray

“So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed…

— Annie Dillard

a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants…

— Virginia Woolf

“This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.”

— Phindiwe Nkosi

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

“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has experienced that…

— Ivan Klima

“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel…

— Laura Nowlin

“What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the world's eyes…

— Thomas Mann