I think Quote by Nick Hornby

“Think of literary fiction as a meal with intricate scents, flavors, and textures that you can’t recognize unless you chew with your eyes closed.”

— Jessica Bell

There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading…

— Anne Lamott

I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't…

— A. S. Byatt

My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest…

— Daniel Handler

“I think that the thematic, formal history of the literary form ultimately harkens back to a different political system. That is to say, a…

— Ayad Akhtar

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary…

— Laura Hillenbrand

I think literary theory satisfied a deep love I have for big, encompassing narratives about the world and how it works - which are…

— Jennifer Egan

I don't think comics necessarily think in literary terms. There is an element of developing your stage persona and your comedic voice, but I…

— Ted Alexandro

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

— Ted Rall

I think our literary tradition has to evolve, has to explore its form and its spirit through writers and thinkers, rather than let the…

— Xiaolu Guo

Much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and…

— Karen Russell

I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.

— Ayad Akhtar