Book Quote by Wilkie Collins

Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many times. You…

— Mordecai Richler

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

— Gore Vidal

“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment.”

— Pawan Mishra

“Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader’s limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

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

One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing…

— Nelson Mandela

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

— Veronica Roth

The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for…

— Doris Lessing

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

— Richard Attenborough

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