Ability Quote by James Scott Bell

Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.

— Gillian Cross

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

— Anonymous

“...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for: they undermine…

— Elias Canetti

“Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than he's capable…

— John Gardner

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being…

— Kanika Dhillon

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

— John Burdett

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at…

— Raymond Chandler

“The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don't make a fuss - you can…

— Anonymous

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down…

— Cate Marvin

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.

— Francine du Plessix Gray