Be happy Quote by Elliot Perlman

I'm just happy to have some American readers - enough that it's a viable proposition for my books to appear there.

— Alastair Reynolds

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

— Anonymous

I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.

— Frank Peretti

I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.

— Macaulay Culkin

I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.

— Clive Cussler

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

— Cao Yu

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them…

— Lynn Coady

“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment.”

— Pawan Mishra

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield…

— Henry James

It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want…

— Dan Brown

I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.

— Jessa Crispin

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

— Romain Gary