Doubt Quote by Katherine Anne Porter

“I’m sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, with an enlivening eagerness, for…

— Michael Cunningham

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“I even read aloud the part of the novel I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.”

— Elizabeth Aston

“It may not be the "Great American Novel" they talk about, because its scope is not broad enough to take in all of America,…

— Clyde Brion Davis

“Books can move people, inspire people, change people's lives, and even impact whole societies. They are certainly worth spending an afternoon with.”

— Jan Surasky

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

— Gary Shteyngart

“I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify…

— Toni Morrison

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

“There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability…

— Carl Henegan

“Perhaps I shall take my fortune and retire to the country and read novels where other characters must bother with these sorts of troubles.”

— Maya Rodale

“Here follows the substance of what I said, written out entirely for your benefit. Pay attention to it, or you will be all abroad,…

— Wilkie Collins