Books Quote by David Ignatius

“When I write, I go to live inside the book. By which I mean, mentally I can experience everything I’m writing about. I can…

— Tanith Lee

“Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.”

— Terry Brooks

The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.

— Liane Moriarty

I want to make sense of things, to understand the world, but my work is never really instructional. I have no wisdom to impart…

— Sarnath Banerjee

...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what…

— Dan Simmons

When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.

— Tayari Jones

The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's been described…

— Martin Amis

I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I…

— Maria Semple

“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which…

— Sven Birkerts

The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

— Milan Kundera

In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu…

— Orson Scott Card