Alive Quote by T. S. Eliot

Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings…

— Anonymous

To my mind, the prose in a non-fiction work that's going to endure has to be of the same quality as the prose in…

— Robert Caro

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

— James Kelman

“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and”

— Neil Gaiman

“Some kinds of literature demand to be treated respectfully. The obligation is on the reader to live up to them and not so much…

— Phyllis Rose

“How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the…

— Don DeLillo

“Fiction is a world where only the reader enjoys”

— Mbutoh

“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and…

— Annie Dillard

“To live, fiction must be read, and to be read it must be enjoyed. Why do so many people talk about the number of…

— Trevor Cole

“Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination,…

— Neil Gaiman

“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to…

— William H. Gass

It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.

— Norman Rush