Book Quote by Neil Gaiman

“You are quick to catch the author's intentions and nothing escapes you”

— Italo Calvino

“I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify…

— Toni Morrison

“I’m sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, with an enlivening eagerness, for…

— Michael Cunningham

“You came out of prison incredibly buff or with an addiction to paperback novels.”

— Heather O'Neill

“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and”

— Neil Gaiman

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Perhaps I shall take my fortune and retire to the country and read novels where other characters must bother with these sorts of troubles.”

— Maya Rodale

“There seems a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labor of the novelist, and of slighting performances which have only genius,…

— Jane Austen

“A writer will seal his own coffin, And the interests of readers will soften, If the author insists On the usual twists, And he…

— Mark Grenier

“The Author Promise: Determine what you are going to give the reader, deliver it and never break that promise.”

— Sarah Gerdes

“Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been…

— Walter Moers

“Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, written in…

— Jonathan Barnes