Books Quote by Theodore Dreiser

Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish…

— H. L. Mencken

One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.

— H. L. Mencken

“I can relate to the novelist Carrie Brown...who described herself as being 'a promiscuous reader.' I'll give almost any book a chance to have…

— Nancy Pearl

“But none of them taught me the things I learned from Carrie White. The most important is that the writer’s original perception of a…

— Stephen King

“After finishing a good book, it was sometimes days before she could shake off that other reality; the one she'd dipped into, leaving the…

— Ann Sutherland

“Salinger, Plath, Toole, the literature of choice for the brooding outcast.”

— Rob Thomas

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write,…

— Frederick Weisel

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes…

— Ray Bradbury

“A novel is something that stands at the end of a lengthy process called writing. It is not a preexisting Platonic form embedded within…

— Victoria Nelson

Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after…

— Honore de Balzac

“Sylvia Plath is an example of the egotistical sublime: her subject is herself, her predicament, her violent Romantic emotions,” wrote the poet Craig Raine.”

— Andrew Wilson

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