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I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

— Greg Egan

I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

— Pat Conroy

I think more talented writers should get involved in the industry, yes, of course. But that doesn't presuppose that those writers have to be…

— Richard K. Morgan

I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in…

— Ian Mcewan

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book…

— Jess Walter

I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short…

— Rachel Kushner

Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both.

— Laura Lippman

Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they…

— Sarah Weinman

I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some…

— William S. Burroughs

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

— John Fowles

A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. Not even…

— Lev Grossman