Book Quote by Erik Naggum

“One of the most egregiously stupid books I've ever come across. I would recommend reading this only because it's the epitome of all that…

— Kris Saknussemm

Sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to it?" So…

— Paul Beatty

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.

— Jess Walter

I feel like in American fiction we're moving out of a period of intense irony, and I'm very glad about that. I feel like…

— Lauren Groff

I've found that there's a pretty wide range of silly. I don't want to do outright parody, because I like keeping my own characters…

— Jim C. Hines

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

— Jeffrey Archer

“Irony alone is damning. The flesh will be bland and you will believe you are forever reading the same book.”

— Anne Garréta

it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“(You wouldn’t be reading this book if I hadn’t convinced my publisher that I was enough of a pseudo-extrovert to promote it.)”

— Susan Cain

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

— Wally Lamb

I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

— Al Franken

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.

— Patricia Piccinini