Attention Quote by Sergio Troncoso

“Rich people don’t have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially.…

— Sergio Troncoso

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They…

— Cornelia Funke

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more…

— Flannery O'Connor

The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by…

— Vance Palmer

“Best or worst, novels are all the same. Nothing but love, love, love; what silly nonsense it is! Why don’t people write about the…

— George Gissing

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not that they…

— Michael Korda

“At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many people who…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Words in books can remind us of truth, and help awaken us to it. But in themselves, words are just paint and writers are…

— David James Duncan

The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.

— Elizabeth Berg

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.…

— Anthony Powell

“How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these? Where are the things that novelists seize…

— Wallace Stegner