"An enigmatic author, possibly the best you've never heard of . . . His work insists on the reality of the inner world–perhaps even its primacy." –Melissa Harrison, Financial Times
"Immediately arresting . . . Murnane's writing exhibits what literature should: an insight into a way of seeing that is quite unlike our own." –John Self, Irish Times
"As with Proust, the specificities of the images he pursues and catalogues provide their own pleasure [but] the effect of his writing is less about the images themselves, and more about the way thought works in the human mind." –Chris Power, The Guardian
" Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs provides [an] introduction to Murnane's singular method of rendering the invisible visible, both to himself and to his readers." –Dan Shurley,
3: AM Magazine