Books Quote by Erica Brown

“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.”

— Donald Hall

“Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it’s merely the latest in…

— Thomas C. Foster

There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about.

— Mark Kurlansky

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood

“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to…

— Mark Slouka

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

— Don DeLillo

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page…

— John Irving

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside…

— Brian Moore

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

— Howard Gordon

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm…

— Lisa Scottoline

The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life;…

— Pascal Bruckner