A-novel-idea Quote by Amy Wallace

“The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try…

— Pat Conroy

“writers are like gods in their own little universes, constantly weaving lives, worlds, people, relationships and conflicts into existence.”

— Yefon Isabelle

“Writing a novel mimics what we bring to our journey of life. God is the great editor who purges the faulty, the awkward, and…

— Denise M. Baran-Unland

“We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived…

— Val Edward Simone

“It is through fiction that we learn not to believe everything we read in print.”

— Ann Mullen

“With different changes but the same plot, sometimes our story has already unfolded. It's just trapped in the pages of ink and paper. God…

— Eric Samuel Timm

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

— James Van Pelt

“A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams…

— Neil Gaiman

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all…

— Joseph Conrad

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks…

— Ksenia Anske

“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.”

— Ann Marie Aguilar