“I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.” Quote by Imre Kertész
“There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.” HumansI CanHuman BeingsGoes OnBlessingBoredBoredomReincarnationRebirth Author:Dustin Hoffman
“One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.” KnowsDoeFiction Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined.” SaidCynicalBiographers Author:Hermione Lee
“The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.” CharacterPureInventionJournalismGreek Tragedy Book:The Journalist And The Murderer Source: The Journalist And The Murderer
“I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.” ChanceNovelistsHistorian Author:Hilary Mantel
“Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?” DifferentTogetherLanguageFit Author:Herta Muller
“People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.” PeopleCareFrank Author:Eileen Myles
“I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.” CharacterBigsNovelWrittenAirBreathe Author:Norman Rush
“I love going to plays. There's a subconscious side to it, obviously-some people like to be spanked for XYZ psychological reasons, and I like to go to plays, and I can't entirely explain why.” PeopleI CanReasonPlaySidesPsychologicalSubconscious Author:Wallace Shawn