Age Quote by Philip Roth

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to…

— Roald Dahl

“The next time you feel yourself giving in to the sometimes overwhelming urge to panic about the fate of literature in the digital age,…

— Adam Hammond

As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I don’t like writers whose writing is so obvious that I can predict what he’ll write while I’m still taking in his current thoughts.…

— Jarod Kintz

“At the heart of the novelist's craft lies an optimism which thinks that the knowledge we gather from our everyday experience, if given proper…

— Orhan Pamuk

“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

“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life…

— Henry Miller

“Hey, we live each day, start each day, as if we had an endless number stretching out ahead of us. We don't, but that's…

— Gordon Weaver

“When reading dies, the imagination soon follows.”

— Ronnie Ray Jenkins

Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will…

— A. S. Byatt