Axioms Quote by E. M. Forster

“The whole point is that writing has a pattern and life hasn't. Life is so untidy. Art is so short and life so long.…

— Elizabeth Taylor

“life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction’s purpose,”

— Katie Kitamura

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

— Georges Simenon

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

— John Gregory Dunne

imperfections create character...

— Ellen Hopkins

Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that makes the…

— Alexander Chee

Imperfections make a character.

— Sarah Harding

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...

— Ernest Hemingway

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

— Henry James

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.

— Antonio Tabucchi

No one in life can ever match fiction

— Sabrina Jeffries

“A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of…

— Marcel Proust