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“His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes, but as…

— Roberto Bolaño

“This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a screaming line…

— John Buchan

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“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

“Lass.' Saga turned away to hide her smile. How like a fairy tale, that word. Rapunzel. A tall tower by a deep emerald lake.…

— Julia Glass

“Blanche Ingram, after having repelled, by supercilious taciturnity, some efforts of Mrs Dent and Mrs Eshton to draw her into conversation, had first murmured…

— Charlotte Bronte

“A man is lying under machine-gun fire on a street in an embattled city. He looks at the pavement and sees a very amusing…

— Czesław Miłosz

“Speaking of novels,’ I said, ‘you remember we decided once, you, your husband and I, that Proust’s rough masterpiece was a huge, ghoulish fairy…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Predators prey on the weak; poets prey on brilliant ideas.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Since I picked up my first book, I have been reading about amazing discoveries, intrepid explorers, and fantastic creatures, all while scarcely setting foot…

— William Ritter

“Tell it, Fanny. About the crowds, streets, buildings, lights, about the whirligig of loneliness, about the humpty-dumpty clutter of longings. And then explain about…

— Ben Hecht

“There must be many books, many lovely pines, to shield from hungry eyes the book that really matters, the wretched cave of our misfortune,…

— Roberto Bolaño