History Quote by Ayana Mathis

As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be alive. How…

— J.A. Konrath

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

Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.

— Alice Mattison

...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what…

— Dan Simmons

I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode…

— John Updike

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in…

— Gertrude Atherton

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and…

— Kate DiCamillo

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

— Ellen Glasgow

As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found out in…

— George Saunders

A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I've…

— Ravi Subramanian

I try to be as faithful as possible to the facts as I understand them, but any story is at least partly a product…

— Jason Lutes