Appeal Quote by Jonathan Coe

The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of…

— Colum McCann

The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of…

— Colum McCann

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

— Mark Haddon

To me, the contemporary novel suffers from a lack of sense of place - or spirit of place, if you will. It's not important…

— Lawrence Osborne

There's a lot of anti-intellectualism in Britain. And the writer's views on this or that are really of less importance, as they see it,…

— Martin Amis

I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't…

— Haruki Murakami

“It is almost impossible to get a novel printed in an English journal unless it is warranted to contain nothing at all to which…

— Grant Allen

It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen.…

— Peter Baynham

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite…

— Irvine Welsh

We have a great literary tradition in Australia. I think the book is very much alive and the more people who are encouraged to…

— George Brandis

Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all…

— Tobias Wolff

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

— James Thayer