Air Quote by Fran Lebowitz

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.

— Armand Assante

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'

— Bharati Mukherjee

Literature is air, and Im suffocating in mediocrity.

— Armand Assante

As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.

— Will Self

Novels are longer than life.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.

— Orison Swett Marden

Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.

— Philip Larkin

“as only an insider can, and he brings that expertise to his prose, creating one of the most truthful, accurate, and tension-filled suspense novels…

— Garret Holms

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.

— Megan Abbott

“To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they work throughout their lives.”

— Walter Benjamin