Air Quote by Flannery O'Connor

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

— D. H. Lawrence

I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually.

— Deborah Eisenberg

From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back…

— Edmund White

“It's good to have these stories in our holy books, to remind us that they were written by humans. Filthy-minded, morally ambiguous humans.”

— Suzanne Morrison

Writing is a vocation and, as in any other calling, a writer should develop his talents for the greater glory of God. Novels should…

— Piers Paul Read

Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell

Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell

Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul.…

— J. C. Ryle

I believe a novel must first of all be a good story. My hope is that the spiritual message is woven in so well,…

— Julie Klassen

“Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should…

— Edna O'Brien

“One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all dogmas, all…

— Walter Kaufmann

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

— Allegra Goodman