Ambassador Quote by Carl Henegan

“I believe half of a writer’s job is to, really, take you to another world and give you a view of things, information about…

— Caleb Carr

“The job of the writer is to change the way the reader sees the world.”

— after Richard Ford

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life…

— Henry Miller

“And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to do is…

— Margaret Laurence

“Some fictions become fixtures in the real city. Their stories are so powerful that they leap off the page on to the streets, irreversibly…

— Henry Eliot

“A writer will find inspiration anywhere. They have to look and see, that's all. Then they have to write.”

— Dermott Hayes

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

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

— James Van Pelt

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.”

— Ella Berthoud