Books Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick

“I’m glad you are feeling more deeply drawn into your book; as for your not being sure now what it is about, does anyone…

— Truman Capote

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

“fiction is both artifice and verisimilitude, and that there is nothing difficult in holding together these two possibilities.”

— James Wood

“Exceptional estimable, good, nice, dear people they all were but they all, unluckily, kept asking me about the new novel, and that was excrutiating.”

— Robert Walser

“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.”

— Ella Berthoud

“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

“Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, written in…

— Jonathan Barnes

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“I’ve read countless literary works that detail the longing and ache that characters have for someone they love, and over time, I have developed…

— Jessica Park

“I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify…

— Toni Morrison

“Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being.”

— Ken Scott

“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by…

— Milan Kundera