Books Quote by Gregory Benford

“Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, written in…

— Jonathan Barnes

“... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the…

— Umberto Eco

“Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.”

— Azar Nafisi

“Some truly bad writing, but brilliantly funny at the same time. "When he was yet a million miles away the bright ring of fire…

— Alan Glasser

“Azathoth tended to hire his thugs a certain way: big, dumb, stupid, and okay with the insanity of an ever-expanding indifferent void where everything…

— Dennis Liggio

“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences…

— David Bowker

“Christopher Isherwood tried to trick a good topic into rising from his unconscious by irritating it, “deliberately writing nonsense until it intervenes, as it…

— Ralph Keyes

“In books there were limitless worlds, there was truth, sometimes brutal and ugly, and sometimes happy and soothing.”

— Héctor Tobar

“he wrote of these things and utter nonsense in the same breath, and this made me dismiss the book. Until I finished it. You…

— Hugh Howey

“When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel..…

— John Green

“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.”

— Annie Cohen-Solal