Animals Quote by Uzodinma Iweala

People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and…

— Philip Pullman

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

— Gary Shteyngart

To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen.…

— Kate DiCamillo

I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long…

— William Golding

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

— Patrick Ness

I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city.

— Colson Whitehead

It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what they imagined.…

— Craig Ferguson

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

— Ted Rall

I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.

— Gary Shteyngart

I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.

— John Lanchester

I think that the idea that there's such a thing as a national literature that's somehow uniquely expressive of a national soul or culture…

— Louis Menand

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

— Ian Mcewan