"Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American."

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"Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American."

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"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."

George Orwell, British Author

Literature, Writing, Prose, Creativity, Art

"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Literature, Fiction, Fact, World, Imagination

"The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Literature, Storytelling, Problem, Solution, Imagination

"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."

John Green, American Author

Literature, Present, Death, Truth

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Literature, Poetry, Women, History, Creativity

"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Literature, Storytelling, Memory, Meaning, Imagination

"I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. I've always demanded a certain quality in the people I liked. I've always recognized it at once-and it's the only quality I respect in men. I chose my friends by that...A self-sufficient ego. Nothing else matters."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Literature, Writing, Legacy, Art, Affection

"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Literature, Pain, Learning, Ignorance, Reading

"The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature."

George Orwell, British Author

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"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."

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"Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical."

Fun, Funny, People

"I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper."

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"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."

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"Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible."

Literature, Light, Living

"I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley."

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"Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present."

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"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."

"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."

"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."

"The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell."

"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."

"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

"The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature."

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"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."

"Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical."

"I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper."

"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."

"Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible."

"I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley."

"I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling."

"Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer."

"I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love."

"Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present."