History Quote by Paul Ham

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“These were times when the sheer splendour of language and the boundless potential of the human imagination to transcend the inexorable, horrendous dullness of…

— M.J. Nicholls

“Unable to explore setting, conflict, characters or themes in their fiction, the mainstreamers wrote more and more eloquently about nothing at all.”

— Dave Wolverton

“I craved a form of naive realism. I paid special attention, I craned my readerly neck whenever a London street I knew was mentioned,…

— Ian McEwan

“All the literature of this century is somewhat burdened by the theme of uprootedness.”

— Reinaldo Arenas

“I avoid contemporary TV...politics...art: all too frantic, fevered, and frivolous, or else angry, bitter.”

— Dean Koontz

The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments…

— Milan Kundera

“Pop culture writing is about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Literature is about extraordinary people in ordinary circumstances.”

— Stephen King

“A fiction writer is nothing more then the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how many people…

— Carl Henegan

“Readers have some peculiar notions about the status of writers, the most foolish of which is that writers are treated like royalty by their…

— Reed Farrel Coleman

“Society places the writer so far beyond the pale that society does not regard the writer at all.”

— Annie Dillard

“Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!”

— William Dean Howells