Books Quote by David Brin

That sort of effort has to come not only from the writer but also from a really innovative publisher like Quirk.

— Theodora Goss

“I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world…

— Philip K. Dick

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

— Richard Flanagan

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel…

— Stephenie Meyer

It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice…

— Jennifer Egan

You have to be able to invest in your own creations, to suspend your own disbelief in order to be able to write them.…

— Alastair Reynolds

Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise.

— Chris Van Allsburg

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than…

— David Halberstam

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

— Umberto Eco

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting…

— Jodi Picoult

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world…

— Philip K. Dick