Article Quote by Javier Marías

“Writing novels allows you to create your own world.”

— Norman Shabel

“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

“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.”

— Ann Marie Aguilar

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

“Fiction is a world where only the reader enjoys”

— Mbutoh

“Writing is a way of remaking the world, both for the writer and reader.”

— Mark Rubinstein

Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they…

— Sarah Weinman

“Reality mixed in with the right dash of creative license is what works the best - when writing novels, at least!”

— Mike Watson

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if…

— Jessamyn West

“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.”

— Amaya Ellman

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

— Lauren Groff