Literature-quotes Quote by Léon Bloy

“And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to do is…

— Margaret Laurence

“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

“The 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

“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's both terrifying…

— Dean Koontz

“I was one to fall for strangers, to live in fiction more than reality. I had created a perfect romantic and mysterious character for…

— Gaia B. Amman

“You know that feeling when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel…

— Cassandra Clare

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never…

— Thomas C. Foster

“The novel is an event in consciousness. Our aim isn't to copy actuality, but to modify and recreate our sense of it. The novelist…

— George Buchanan

“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

“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