Concern Quote by Flannery O'Connor

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he…

— Nicole Krauss

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery…

— Anne Tyler

The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes…

— Dana Spiotta

Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.

— Lauren Groff

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

— David Foster Wallace

“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel…

— John Franklin Bardin

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to…

— Mary McCarthy

I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

— Jonathan Franzen

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

— Sara Sheridan

What we know about writing the novel is the novel.

— Eudora Welty