Beauty Quote by Joshua Ferris

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

— James Kelman

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat

“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she herself has…

— Loretta H. Marion

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found out in…

— George Saunders

“It is the importance of this quality of generosity in fiction that requires a measure of childishness in the writer. People who have strong…

— John Gardner

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to…

— Jane Austen

“...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for: they undermine…

— Elias Canetti

“Literature is a source of pleasure, he said, it is one of the rare inexhaustible joys in life, but it's not only that. It…

— Laurence Cossé

I think a fairly common behavior among fiction writers is that they want to help. They're generally charitable people. They're interested in the world.…

— Joshua Ferris

“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to…

— William H. Gass

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the…

— Charlie Kaufman