Community Quote by George Saunders

In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface,…

— Italo Calvino

Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of time. Reading…

— Zia Haider Rahman

Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.

— Lewis Buzbee

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

— Deborah Eisenberg

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

— Guy Kawasaki

Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable products for…

— Joanna Scott

Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.

— Denis Donoghue

It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels…

— Graham Swift

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

— Ian Hunter

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I think, television and comics, what's appealing to me as a writer about both of those mediums is that they allow you to sort…

— Travis Beacham

It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe.

— Gale Anne Hurd