Able Quote by Amos Oz

D.H. Lawrence, I think, defined the difference between writing an article and writing a novel very well. He said, in writing a novel, the…

— Amos Oz

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction -…

— David Mamet

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's…

— Truman Capote

I find myself speaking through the other characters, putting ideas in their voices and heads. Writing almost becomes a splitting of myself into multiple…

— Danzy Senna

When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.

— David Bezmozgis

One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book. It's why…

— Michael Ondaatje

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

— Nancy Kress

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

— Joyce Cary

As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is the ultimate…

— Pankaj Mishra

“By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of…

— William Faulkner

If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and…

— Kevin Keck