Books Quote by Larry McCaffery

“There is something gratuitous about creation, an unnecessary abundance of beauty, and through its blossoms and pleasures we can revel in the sheer largesse…

— Michael Reeves

“Every writer must learn to kill his little darlings.”

— William Faulkner

“Books are immortal sons defying their sires.”

— Plato

“Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.”

— Colum McCann

“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.”

— Annie Cohen-Solal

“Perhaps it was something like this that changed the captive children forever; the violence they had endured when they were captured, their parents killed.…

— Paulette Jiles

“We know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the reader must be at the…

— Roland Barthes

“The fact is that an unscrupulous tyrant mobilizes the suppressed fears and anxieties of those who were beaten as children but have never been…

— Alice Miller

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“Characters, for good or evil, are part of an author's family. Once we have let them out of our imaginations, they stay with us…

— Andrew Ferrell

“yet, I have spent my literary career writing loving odes to my drunken and unreliable father. I have, in a spectacular show of hypocrisy,…

— Sherman Alexie

“The thing about fathers is that they are human. But, they stay bent on being heroes to their children, readily willing to give themselves…

— Srini Chandra