Books Quote by Mian Mian

“Literature isn't true/ It's just something that we do”

— Susanne Christensen

“It’s only literature, I know, but it does something, or at least it says something.”

— Alaa Alghamdi

“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to…

— Mark Slouka

“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.”

— Donald Hall

“First of all, ideas aren’t the hard part. Secondly, there are no new ideas, only the author’s unique execution.”

— Josh Lanyon

“I also once heard that if you have enough good ideas for three or four great novels, then what you probably have is actually…

— Darren White

“Ideas don’t come out fully formed , they only become clearer as you work on them . You just have to get started.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

“Maybe the key is that Big Ideas are Little Ideas but told in Big Ways?”

— Holly Goldberg Sloan

“He liked to say that what makes literature is “inventing truly from honestly acquired knowledge, so that what you make up is truer than…

— Paul Hendrickson

“There’s plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But”

— Michael Robotham

“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.”

— George Saunders

“Talking about ideas for a novel is a bit like showing pictures of the ultrasound if you're pregnant. Until they're out in the world,…

— Clare Boylan