Books Quote by Mary MacLane

It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing…

— Neil Cross

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written,…

— Norton Juster

True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a…

— Orhan Pamuk

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was…

— V. S. Naipaul

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience…

— Iain Banks

One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.

— Chris Pavone

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

Writing is such a strangely and radically private act, and yet its purpose is this great sense of connection and community. I mean, I…

— Cheryl Strayed

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real…

— Alan Lightman

In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it gets made…

— Nicholas Sparks