Fiction Quote by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels…

— Chang-Rae Lee

“Writers of literature, if they are real writers, know that their readers are confused about reality and the emotions derived from that reality and…

— Noah Cicero

The truth about being a writer is you do not choose the stories you tell, but stories choose you. You do not choose, therefore,…

— Rosa Montero

I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a…

— Neil Gaiman

“Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he…

— Orhan Pamuk

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms…

— Rick Bass

The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.

— Thane Rosenbaum

A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined…

— Walter Kirn

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in…

— Muriel Spark

“What are they like, writers, in your mind: it may seem strange, but initially it’s not about writing. A writer is someone who struggles…

— Christian Bobin

Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and…

— Susan Straight