Books Quote by Cynthia Ozick

“The Author Promise: Determine what you are going to give the reader, deliver it and never break that promise.”

— Sarah Gerdes

“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.”

— Wally Lamb

“Novelist: Telling lies for fun and profit.”

— Marilyn Celeste Morris

The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.”

— Carl Henegan

“The novelist's business is lying.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Do writers of fiction tell lies or just tall stories?”

— Clive Owen Barry

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

— Joseph O'Neill

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

— Howard Gordon

Novelists lie for a living - what is a novel, after all, but an assembly of fibs paradoxically meant to illustrate something true? -…

— Jonathan Miles

“We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver…

— Pamela Glass Kelly