Books Quote by Alain de Botton

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in…

— Dan Chaon

I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe…

— Roxane Gay

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

— George Barr McCutcheon

I loved writing something I'd never written before, and I wanted to write not just about "true love" but also a human relationship.

— Theodora Goss

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

— Jan Karon

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

— Etgar Keret

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

— Jill Lepore

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is…

— Gillian Cross

“Love Fiction for Fiction Lovers”

— Selene Grace Silver

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some…

— Nicholas Mosley

I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that…

— Ruth Glick

I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

— Joseph O'Neill