Books Quote by Jonathan Barnes

“This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been…

— Ernest Hemingway

“This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, rants, facts, contrivances, and incidents are either the product of the author’s questionable imagination…

— Penny Reid

Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after…

— Honore de Balzac

“The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let…

— Hope Mirrlees

“I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I…

— Chloe Thurlow

“One of the most egregiously stupid books I've ever come across. I would recommend reading this only because it's the epitome of all that…

— Kris Saknussemm

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all…

— Joseph Conrad

“The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“All novels are impossible. We would not wish to read them if they were not. Can you imagine how dull a tale would be…

— Caitlin Williams

“It is dangerous to condemn stories as junk which satisfy the deep hunger of millions of people. These books are not literary art, but…

— Judith Skelton-Grant

“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may…

— Ernest Hemingway