Book Quote by William Faulkner

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old…

— William Faulkner

“The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to…

— William Faulkner

The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian…

— William Faulkner

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It…

— William Faulkner

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local…

— Renata Adler

“We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.”

— Henry James

“I feel I owe it to the women that their stories should be told fully by us—the descendants and heirs to their very real…

— Philippa Gregory

“Every so often, a novel comes along to remind us that what we hope is true, is true: that understanding is stronger than what…

— Gary Schmidt

“All that's needed now is a great novel that will capture the imagination of the public - move them, enrage them, thrill them, terrify…

— Michael Farber

“The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the…

— Roman Payne

“Mal Peet: "In terms of sustaining a literate and literary culture, the books we put into our children’s hands are immeasurably more important than…

— M.G. Harris