Because Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be…

— Edmund White

John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are very different…

— John Updike

“If Barthes, along with Bachelard, is one of those who have done most to enrich criticism during the last thirty years, it is not…

— Laurent Binet

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a…

— Nell Freudenberger

“I very much like Kristin Cashore's books. I like Catherine Fisher's Incarceron ; it may be a bit more complicated then the books I…

— Franny Billingsley

“He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply…

— Andrew James Pritchard

The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most…

— Zadie Smith

I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.

— Sara Bareilles

Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as…

— Henry Rollins

Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest,…

— William Allingham

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He read with intensity and was passionately in love with every character, every turn of plot or twist of language. He made the characters…

— Sarah Ockler