Believe Quote by Howard Jacobson

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

— Manuel Puig

I'm always writing new books so I don't dwell on the ones I've already done. I think that's a habit from being a newspaper…

— Dave Barry

I don't write a lot of fiction.

— John Rzeznik

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be…

— William Monahan

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border…

— Jo Beverley

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some…

— Nicholas Mosley

It's my belief that I was a writer - a very hardworking writer - well before I was published. I did care what others…

— Min Jin Lee

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

It is a misrepresentation to call my works fiction; the work loses something when categorized this way. I realize that the stories are somewhat…

— Jill Magid

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands…

— Rebecca Miller

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

— Bill Gates