Books Quote by Steven Cooper

“I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.”

— Teri Louise Kelly

“I have only men like you n novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.”

— Sachin Kundalkar

“Unfortunately, he was a man through and through, and therefore had a penis, which meant that there'd be no reasoning with him.”

— Jill Shalvis

“What novels did you read when you were young, dear? I'm convinced it all turns on that.”

— Edith Wharton

“I have only met men like you in novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.”

— Sachin Kundalkar

“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.”

— George Saunders

“Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Well, my story, surely, would furnish out a surprising kind of novel, if it were to be well told.”

— Samuel Richardson

“Unfortunately, the story wasn’t a novel, and it wasn’t fiction.”

— Aleatha Romig

“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel is fiction.”

— Roxane Gay

“If you have a book, and an imagination, you can never find yourself alone. Ever.”

— William Fritz

“I fuck with every book, and if I don’t leave a mark, there’s no orgasm.”

— Carlos María Domínguez