Books Quote by Sally Rooney

“The nature of the epistolary genre was revealed to me: a form of writing devoted to another person. Novels, poems, and so on, were…

— Amélie Nothomb

“As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style. Writing…

— Nicholas Carr

“the whole point of literature, I think, is that it’s the best technology we have for communicating what another person’s life feels like from…

— Garth Greenwell

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques…

— Simin Behbahani

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

— Terry Eagleton

“Literature is communication. Communication requires loyalty. A rigorous morality results from complicity in the knowledge of Evil, which is the basis of intense communication.”

— Georges Bataille

“When an author took the time and trouble to choose exactly the right words and arrange them in the right order, there was a…

— Sophie Hannah

If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules.…

— Jennifer Egan

“all writers, given adequate technique—technique that communicates—can stir our interest in their special subject matter, since at heart all fiction treats, directly or indirectly,…

— John Gardner

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is…

— Ezra Pound