Books Quote by Richard Dawkins

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

— Alec-Tweedie

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.

— Anonymous

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind. I don't like that style whereby you kind of stitch people up. But the…

— Geoff Dyer

I feel like in American fiction we're moving out of a period of intense irony, and I'm very glad about that. I feel like…

— Lauren Groff

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.

— Jess Walter

I'm being provided with some emotional ballast by giving me an intimate portrait of one character in particular in contrast to the collective. I'm…

— Joshua Ferris

Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire.…

— Carl Hiaasen

A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or…

— Neil Gaiman

I love satire. Evelyn Waugh is one of my favorite writers of all time. He's hilarious. He's so wicked. He's so great. On the…

— T.C. Boyle

And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer…

— Karen Russell

I've found that there's a pretty wide range of silly. I don't want to do outright parody, because I like keeping my own characters…

— Jim C. Hines

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

— John Burdett