Books Quote by Matthew Strecher

“As much as any contemporary writer, Murakami grasps the bewildering fluidity of commoditized life.”

— The Japan Foundation

If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman,…

— Antoine Wilson

“All good exposition is disguised by making it dramatic – by injecting conflict.”

— John Yorke

“Blurring the line between possible and impossible, linear and non-linear time, fiction and reality, fate and free will, 1Q84 is both a metaphysical mind-teaser…

— Haruki Murakami

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

“But a good novel is first of all an event; as distinguished from the continuous rush of many sensations and the messy overlapping experiences…

— Anonymous

“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

“If fast-paced entertainment is not among the pleasures generally offered by the literary novel, other pleasure often abound: a richness of language, a heart-breaking…

— Joshua Henkin

“This melodrama differed from others in that it was not written, it was to be played impromptu, and only once; after that it would…

— Upton Sinclair

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

— James Van Pelt

“Indeed, as a system of exchange based on a highly codified feeling that is continually reproduced and circulated even as it cannot be subjectively…

— Sianne Ngai

“...the casual fact, the creative imagination, the will to believe, and out of these three elements, a counterfeit of reality to which there was…

— Walter Lippmann