Heartless Quote by Stephen Fry

Life without literary studies is death.

— Seneca the Younger

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

— Eric Rohmer

I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly…

— Ben Lerner

I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.

— Ranbir Kapoor

As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read…

— Jonathan Lethem

I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in…

— Ian Mcewan

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

— Gertrude Atherton

I do not love fiction, I love history.

— Duane Hanson

“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Fiction is an improvement on life

— Charles Bukowski

I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know a period…

— Sarah Waters

Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn