Advantages Quote by Chang-Rae Lee

My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions…

— H. P. Lovecraft

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story…

— Nick Earls

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences…

— Mohsin Hamid

The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels…

— Lisa Unger

“The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a…

— Paul Theroux

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to…

— Mohsin Hamid

A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the…

— Stendhal

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another…

— Anne Lamott

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was…

— Hank Green

“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant…

— Don DeLillo

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get…

— Walter Mosley

With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens to people,…

— Dave Barry