Books Quote by Richard Wright

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright

“As with any great literature, there are probably as many ways to read William Faulkner’s writing as there are readers. There are hundreds of…

— William Faulkner

“He is the greatest artist the South has produced.… Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral problem which…

— William Faulkner

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a…

— Paul Theroux

“The novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.

— Louise Erdrich

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all…

— Joseph Conrad

“Writers of literature, if they are real writers, know that their readers are confused about reality and the emotions derived from that reality and…

— Noah Cicero

“Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources. What…

— Thomas C. Foster

Faulkner is a really important figure in southern literature. I wrestle with him and his legacy every time I sit down and write a…

— Jesmyn Ward

“I would read accounts of so-called battles I had been in, and they had no relation whatever to what had happened. So I began…

— Paul Fussell