Barricades Quote by Terry Eagleton

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

— Dorothy Parker

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

— Andrew O'Hagan

This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

— Dorothy Parker

“Writers haven't got any rockets to blast off. We don't even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle. We haven't got any military might. So…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda.

— Olga Tokarczuk

All literature is protest.

— Richard Wright

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

— Jane Smiley

“The average author hawks their books at many events. They are vigilant promoters, waiting for a breakthrough. They do this, or else watch their…

— Michael J. Kannengieser

The hostile multitudes are vast as spaceWhat chance is there that all should be subdued? Let but this angry mind be overthrownAnd every foe…

— Shantideva

“Enormous novels by co-eds. Rain down on our defenceless heads. Till our teeth chatter.”

— W.H. Auden

Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not be too…

— L. Sprague de Camp

Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.

— Salman Rushdie