Quote by John Barth

“Only God writes great non-fiction.”

— E.C. Lartigue

“Yes I am a firm believer in Christ, and yes there is cussing and other sinful things in my writing, simply because I am…

— Kimberly Humphreys

“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

“When I write fiction, I struggle to decide the fate of two people created by my mind and spend countless hours to give them…

— Shahla Khan

“Most people do not believe in the Almighty. They simply acknowledge that he exists and thus mistake their acknowledgement with faith.”

— Esther Thomas

“Perhaps we are all fictions, father, in the mind of God.”

— Graham Greene

“But deep this truth impress'd my mind: Thro' all His works abroad, The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.”

— Robert Burns

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

— Gustave Flaubert

“An author of fiction is a god of the world he creates. But it must be a world others want to inhabit.”

— Raul Ramos y Sanchez

“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.”

— Anne R. Allen

“The Lord Almighty is God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita