Books Quote by John Irving

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

— John Irving

Since 1966, hundreds of books have been published that follow murderers along their paths of destruction. Every serial killer, it seems, now has a…

— Eric Schlosser

As a literature student, I put pen to paper in times of devastating tragedy, I just try to make sense of it. Maybe I'll…

— Samuel Kermis

“There’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and women we…

— Anne Lamott

“The best fiction rises – yes, like a phoenix – out of the ashes of people’s sad, true disasters. We write in order to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“In books, often the bad guys have a story too, and sometimes it is just as tragic as the hero’s.”

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

“In general…there’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and women…

— Anne Lamott

“...our literature has fallen upon evil days...Read the latest book. What do you find? Simple anecdotes: murder, suicide and accident stories copied right out…

— J.K. Huysmans

Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in…

— Uzodinma Iweala

“Have you ever felt, in the course of reading a detective novel, a guilty thrill of relief at having a character murdered before he…

— Jonathan Lethem

“Death to the attacker was a yardstick of success, to the media person and the government, was a mere statistic. But to her, and…

— Kirthi Jayakumar

“It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still…

— Umberto Eco