Book Quote by Jonathan Franzen

I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among many non-fiction…

— Robert Caro

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring writers do…

— Ben Dolnick

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who…

— Flannery O'Connor

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

— Richard Harris

When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story…

— Jeff Feuerzeig

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary…

— Mark Kurlansky

The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is…

— Martin Amis

“I read all kinds of novels, as long as they’re good. I get a bit piqued when people say, 'I don’t really like that…

— Gillian Flynn

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in…

— Dan Chaon

Listening to people discussing a novel can be very interesting, if you've read whatever novel is being discussed. No one, it seems, ever says,…

— Zia Haider Rahman

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

— Richard Hughes