Abuse Quote by Martin Amis

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.

— Martin Amis

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in…

— Anthony Burgess

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

— Don DeLillo

I don't think writing fiction has changed my worldview.

— Donald Ray Pollock

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in…

— Anthony Burgess

I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and…

— Marge Piercy

Definitely things changed from the books. Especially when youre adapting something.

— Chad Hodge

It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I…

— Dorothy Allison

Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves issues of…

— Gao Xingjian

Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.

— Carl Sagan

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view,…

— George Murray

I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in…

— Ian Mcewan