Ends Quote by Nicole Krauss

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of…

— Carolyn See

“One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.”

— Terry a O'Neal

“Unfinished works of great Authors are a triumph not a tragedy, it shows they gave us their all till the end”

— A.C. Quinn

“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what…

— Susan Sontag

“To me reading is an almost sacred activity and the great novel is its high mass. The novel is so deeply powerful as an…

— Gregory Day

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

— E. M. Forster

“the starting place for any powerful story must be the author himself. If a story doesn’t resonate first and foremost with you, why believe…

— K.M. Weiland

For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence, each beckoned…

— James Emanuel

“A great book does not have to be a literary masterpiece with complicated sentences and words no one has heard of. It has to…

— Amanda Mackey

“Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death-- fascinating, cruel,…

— Cara Swann

“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words…

— Nicholas Carr

Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book…

— Pat Conroy