Best Quote by Geraldine Brooks

Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are…

— Martin Amis

I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you…

— Ian Mcewan

I've never really felt like a journalist. I've felt like a writer and a diarist. I have made myself vulnerable in my writing, and…

— Tavi Gevinson

“Subjective storytelling is now almost as common in the news media as it is in feature films, TV dramas, novels or theater shows. Journalists…

— Lance Morcan

“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she herself has…

— Loretta H. Marion

In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.

— A. B. Yehoshua

If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and…

— Jonathan Franzen

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

— Tom Stoppard

Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books…

— J. M. Coetzee

Socially and politically, we seem to be living in dire times, worse times than in the past. But there were far worse horrors in…

— Clarence Major

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the…

— Ann Patchett

I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at…

— Lionel Shriver