Life Quote by Bernard DeVoto

“life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction’s purpose,”

— Katie Kitamura

“The novelist might be greater possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and…

— William Dean Howells

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

— Frank Norris

“Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers.”

— Jaime Buckley

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

— Monica Johnson

I believe any fiction writer is inspired by real life.

— Ravi Subramanian

The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

— Varley O'Connor

Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and…

— Stephen Fry

“When I Read the Book" When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author calls a…

— Walt Whitman

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

— George Sand

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

— Henry James