Creating Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try…

— Pat Conroy

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she…

— Manuel Puig

“Only God writes great non-fiction.”

— E.C. Lartigue

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life…

— Henry Miller

The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as…

— Edward Albee

“When we as writers take our fears, beliefs, imaginations, and research and offer them up for the Lord to use, we are changed, and…

— Amy Wallace

“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“writers are like gods in their own little universes, constantly weaving lives, worlds, people, relationships and conflicts into existence.”

— Yefon Isabelle

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

— Angus Wilson

No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world,…

— Anonymous

A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.

— John Updike