Alternative World Quotes
- I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world. — Mary Karr
- There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world. — John Fowles
- Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different kind… — John Marsden
- Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking… — John Berger
- My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world. — Mariella Frostrup