Books Quote by Jacqueline Susann

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.

— Jacqueline Susann

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms…

— Rick Bass

“Literature is what's left standing after the storm.”

— Mark Rude

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but…

— Sinclair Lewis

“In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti.”

— James Thurber

I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.

— Dana Spiotta

I think of myself as a narrative artist. I don't think of myself as a novelist or screenwriter or playwright. All of those modalities…

— Ayad Akhtar

Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply…

— Suzanne Fields

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such…

— Fernando Pessoa

“This isn’t the case with literature. Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel…

— Fernando Pessoa

To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just say, 'Oh,…

— Jonas Mekas