Toby Litt > Quotes

“Conversely, bad writers often write in order to forward a cause or enlarge other people’s understanding of a contemporary social issue. Any attempt to write fiction in order to make the world a better, fairer place is almost certain to fail.”
― Toby Litt

“...the pleasures of literary fiction are the pleasures of orientation; the pleasures of literature are the pleasures of bewilderment.”
― Toby Litt

“Bad writing is almost always a love poem addressed by the self to the self. The person who will admire it first and last and most is the writer herself.”
― Toby Litt