Advantage Quote by Manuel Puig

There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely…

— Charles J. Shields

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general…

— E. B. White

Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must…

— Flora Thompson

Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization…

— Vijay Seshadri

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

— Jacqueline Susann

The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.

— Thane Rosenbaum

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general…

— E. B. White

Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader.…

— E. M. Forster

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a…

— Jonathan Lethem

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in…

— Norman Spinrad

“A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central the burden…

— John Hersey

When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer…

— Janet Morris