Author Opinion Quotes

There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.

There's no literary merit in my books.

I read a lot when I was at college, but really, only a few of Dickens's books work for me.

You know, I don't want to be offensive. But 'Infinite Jest' [regarded by many as Wallace's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent.

Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s.

Honestly, it's terrible, but I don't know if I've ever really read a Stephen King novel.

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.

Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.

I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young writers of my generation who tried to imitate him. I think, for his time, he moved fiction to a different level stylistically, or at least added to the dialogue, but in our time, he's annoying.

People have told me that the dialogue in '100 Bullets' is very realistic. I don't agree.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

I'm sure Proust was a big bore.

I've never got on very well with Jane Austen.

Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent.

Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.

I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

I happen to think Martin Cruz Smith is very good.

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.

It is no secret that I have read 'The Da Vinci Code' several times. I genuinely believe that 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels And Demons' are, by far, Brown's best works.