About Quote by Adam Johnson

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

— Philip Gerard

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías

“Fiction is a world where only the reader enjoys”

— Mbutoh

“Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as…

— Alan McCluskey

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

— Northrop Frye

“There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only that pop culture cannot do…

— David Foster Wallace

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Think of a book special to you, and how much bleaker and poorer your life would be if that one writer had not existed…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

“Writing novels allows you to create your own world.”

— Norman Shabel

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

— Evelyn Waugh

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer