Books Quote by Jonathan Franzen

“Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader’s limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for literature. Books…

— Steve Almond

“Within sixty-minute limits or one-hundred-yard limits or the limits of a game board, we can look for perfect moments or perfect structures. In my…

— Don DeLillo

In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.

— A. B. Yehoshua

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in…

— Norman Spinrad

I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.

— Dana Spiotta

“It's not a silly pursuit to read beyond what's handed to you, to seek out new voices and leap over the usual books everyone's…

— Nova Ren Suma

“At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many people who…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Unable to explore setting, conflict, characters or themes in their fiction, the mainstreamers wrote more and more eloquently about nothing at all.”

— Dave Wolverton

“Contemporary novels can have a fleeting existence within the current multiplication of medias and the technological rapidity with which art is delivered and consumed.…

— Tom Cardamone

Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association”

— Sharon Lovejoy