Past and present Quote by Stewart Home

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“Different narrative forms naturally lend themselves to different aspects of existence. The novel is ideal for presenting the inner lives of its characters, the…

— Todd Alcott

“They were...no ordinary group, gathering together to kill an evening, to seek refuge from critical husbands and demanding children while idly discussing their new…

— Gloria Goldreich

“This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for the rest…

— Rebecca Raisin

The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books.

— Elif Batuman

“I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they…

— Elif Batuman

“The writers we love often serve us through their comfort and example without their ever knowing it, and in this sense, they're as imaginary…

— Patricio Pron

“There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why I’d been…

— C.J. Roberts

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on…

— Antonya Nelson

“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”

— Willie van Peer

“Every story is ultimately about characters, and how they are affected by their adventure.”

— Chris Fox