Extremist Quote by Salman Rushdie

“This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘serious’ courses replete with ‘trends ’ and ‘schools ’…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Sajib: That's a good point. I find mslyef passing on novels over 400 pages these days. There's just not enough time. Thank you for…

— Arman

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.

— Alan Rickman

“These leave-takings in novels are as disagreeable as they are in real life; not so sad, indeed, for they want the reality of sadness;…

— Anthony Trollope

Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered…

— John Granger

I've read enough dreary campus novels to know more than I ever wanted to about the punctured Oxbridge academic psyche, and feel as if…

— Dawn Foster

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a…

— Felix Adler

It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Journeys lead to journeys in unimagined ways.”

— Karen Henry Clark

...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country.…

— Anonymous

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two…

— Paul Fussell

“...the experience of reading a novel has certain qualities that remind us of the traditional apprehension of mythology. It can be seen as a…

— Karen Armstrong