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That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel. A novel journal has to be manipulated so someone reading…

— Cris Mazza

Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the…

— Alexander Chee

I believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself.

— Robert Christgau

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.

— Steven Pressfield

Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature…

— Leland Ryken

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we…

— Ruth Ozeki

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

— Nadine Gordimer

I believe a writer is an eye, a pervasive eye that sees the reality that surrounds us, as well as the impression it makes…

— Mariela Griffor

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a…

— Anonymous

“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

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

— John Hersey

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

— Elizabeth George