Books Quote by Malcolm Lowry

“Isn't that the essence of literature?...Our ability to identify with characters, no matter that they're separated from us by thousands of miles and hundreds…

— Paul Fleischman

“The internal psychological pressure to make up a story, to explain the ruins before one's eyes, is powerful indeed.”

— Michael Crichton

“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in a deep…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really,…

— Dan Brown

“It is a terrible thing to do to unusual people, to drive them so deeply into themselves that each reemergence is a volcanic explosion.”

— Guntram Vesper

Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence…

— Dan Brown

“Explaining hell, Lúcia wrote, “Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze,…

— Carrie Gress

“What The Mysteries of Udolpho suggests is how a novel, by presenting phenomena before it present resolutions, can create an on-going, perhaps spurious, but…

— Ian Gregor

“To these things do writers sink; and then the critics tell them that they “talk for effect”; and then the writers answer: “What the…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Psychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural taboos, the social censorship, that had prohibited the…

— Howard Kerr

“The best fiction rises – yes, like a phoenix – out of the ashes of people’s sad, true disasters. We write in order to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“[about Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises] His characters are as shallow as the saucers in which they stack their daily emotions.”

— The New York Times