Being true Quote by Rachel Kushner

If you read many contemporary literary novels today, you may notice that regardless of the subject matter there's a 'sameness' about them, the way…

— Suhayl Saadi

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

— Dave Wolverton

There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life.

— Frank Peretti

“The novelist might be greater possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and…

— William Dean Howells

Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in our medium,…

— Tillie Olsen

As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained.

— Elif Batuman

It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I…

— Dorothy Allison

“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

Did the nineteenth-century novelists create more generously than we do now? In a general reading of contemporary work, do you see a lot of…

— Lore Segal

“But my writing won’t ever reflect the diversity that literature in general should be capable of. You need writers whose lives are not like…

— John Scalzi

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

— John Fowles

We all have our opinions. But I suspect that writers are actually less worth heeding, because they regard themselves as so uniquely important, so…

— Simon Hoggart