Interest Quote by Rebecca Front

I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes.

— Nick Hornby

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies…

— Susan Sontag

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I felt that…

— Neal Stephenson

Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between…

— Rebecca L. Walkowitz

I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.

— Octavia E. Butler

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

— George Balanchine

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have a huge passion for literature.

— Emily Perkins

Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of…

— Louise Rosenblatt

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a…

— Romola Garai