Anorexia Quote by Isobel Irons

“Thus it has come about that our theoretical and critical literature, instead of giving plain, straightforward arguments in which the author at least always…

— Carl von Clausewitz

“Best or worst, novels are all the same. Nothing but love, love, love; what silly nonsense it is! Why don’t people write about the…

— George Gissing

“Few novelists can be more scrupulous than Jane Austen as to the phrasing of the thoughts of their characters. ”

— Mary Lascelles

“How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these? Where are the things that novelists seize…

— Wallace Stegner

“I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream…

— J.R. Moehringer

“In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather…

— Milan Kundera

“... 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

“Maybe everyone does have a novel in them, perhaps even a great one. I don't believe it, but for the purposes of this argument,…

— Ann Patchett

“People don't say what they mean very often. You have to read between the lines of their behavior, of what they say, to get…

— M.C. Frank

“Great books can be ruined by bad writers.”

— Travis Simmons

“The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You've read me this far, then?…

— John Barth

“Where do you think my new novel is? In the waste basket. I can see myself that it's no good on earth, and when…

— Jean Webster