Writing Quote by Frank Bidart

“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies,…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the world's eyes…

— Thomas Mann

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all…

— Joseph Conrad

“Writers, by their very nature,  live a thousand lives and die a thousand times.  They experience loss each time a character dies.  They revel…

— Larry Ray Palmer

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“The finest SF comes to grips with life's mysteries, with our resentments against our own natures and our limited societies. It does so by…

— George Zebrowski

“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have…

— Vittorio Vandelli

“...perhaps the sweetest moment in writing is the arrival of that idea for a book which never has to be written, which is never…

— Julian Barnes