Beautiful Quote by Luc Sante

When I read 'Meadowland,' I could see the potential for a very internal, quiet story that could be powerful and emotional but also disturbing…

— Reed Morano

“Love Fiction for Fiction Lovers”

— Selene Grace Silver

“Our fiction is not merely in flight from the physical data of the actual world…it is, bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction, nonrealistic and…

— Leslie Fielder

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught…

— Gene Wolfe

For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.

— Mary McCarthy

Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.

— Anonymous

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

— Donna Leon

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“...fiction writing is like duck hunting. You go to the right place at the right time with the right dog. You get into the…

— Ann Patchett

“Sooooooooo much literary fiction I get in the old query inbox is plotless. It's just a character musing about the vagaries and eccentricities of…

— Nathan Bransford literary agent

“How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these? Where are the things that novelists seize…

— Wallace Stegner