Quote by R.S. Gwynn

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

— Dave Wolverton

“A masterpiece of vagueness.”

— Kenneth Oppel

“His writing had become, like a stash of rare and troubling pornography, something that must be kept hidden, an obsession that other people would…

— Kevin Wilson

“This is fan fiction, but it’s the fan fiction of a classical scholar who knows his stuff, even if he is a touch irreverent…

— Sarah Warning Potentially Off-Topic

“Critics were rigid and hidebound, never willing to give due credit for anything that didn’t fit in with their predetermined parameters of what fiction…

— Therese Anne Fowler

“As I repeatedly went forth with him and began to understand the ignorance and contradictions and language difficulties with which he contended, and the…

— Joseph O'Neill

“A writer is just like anyone else, he cannot know everything, nor can he experience everything, he must ask and imagine,”

— José Saramago

“And when I think there are people around me who complain they can't find anything good to read. What nonsense ... every month you…

— Laurence Cossé

“Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and…

— Gustave Flaubert

“People love shit that’s all obscure and mysterious.”

— L.H. Cosway

“He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply…

— Andrew James Pritchard

“What an absurd torture for the artist to know that an audience identifies him with a work that, within himself, he has moved beyond…

— Thomas Mann