Art Quote by Dan Simmons

“Novelists are a special breed. They cannot genuinely trust anything they have not seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands…

— Haruki Murakami

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

— Peter Greenaway

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust…

— Haruki Murakami

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

— Joseph J. Ellis

When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.

— Matt LeBlanc

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

— Po Bronson

“Novelists don’t have answers and ones that do I'm not sure you should trust.”

— David Mitchell

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

— Willa Cather

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust…

— Haruki Murakami

“A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).”

— Albert Camus

“The reader is more important than the writer but the writer should never write just for the reader---authentic writing is a must yet, without…

— Alexander M. Zoltai

“Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to sustain a…

— Jonathan Franzen