Books Quote by Haruki Murakami

First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens the audience…

— Kiese Laymon

I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.

— Clive Cussler

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are…

— Joanna Trollope

Let's say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that's simpler and more…

— Ronald Frame

Evidently, there are many great American writers. But sometimes it can feel as though American fiction is dominated by relatively linear narrative form, with…

— Katie Kitamura

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

— Gary Shteyngart

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be…

— Christopher Dawson

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to…

— Rick Remender

I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.

— Jessa Crispin

I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature…

— Eleanor Catton

Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.

— Robert Eggers

I love novels, and I read them more than anything, but stories cut in sharp and hard and are able to reveal things in…

— David Means