Giving Quote by Rod Lurie

The idea of taking classic American stories and reinterpreting them for a time and place is not just commercially viable. These stories also carry…

— Bill Pullman

The truth is that we're not remaking Sam Peckinpah's 'Straw Dogs,' we're making 'Straw Dogs.' We're taking this story, and we're putting our own…

— Rod Lurie

I think it's a great story, the story of Babel. I think anyone can direct it as an analogy for a lot of different…

— Ted Dwane

“Hacks are killing our national literary culture. America treats best-sellers like literary lions and literary lions worse than stray dogs.”

— David B. Lentz

“...with a few sentences, the authors attempt to counteract the unscrupulous messages endemic to the title, content, and imagery of their book. This attempt…

— Kim Socha

I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by…

— Piers Anthony

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen…

— David Hare

First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens the audience…

— Kiese Laymon

Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is…

— Lucy Corin

Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.

— Lily King

If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge…

— Don DeLillo

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary…

— Helen Dunmore