Extraordinary Quote by Jonathan Franzen

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

— Connie Willis

“The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.”

— V.C. Andrews

“Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as…

— Sarah Waters

“Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.”

— Terry Brooks

“Books took, in her young life, the place of companions and childish games. She read a great deal without guidance or discrimination, and gained…

— Lyubov Dostoyevskaya

“The ordinary are here to fit into the world; the extraordinary are here to create their own worlds.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and…

— john gardner

“I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is…

— John McGahern

“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