Books Quote by Julia Glass

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

— Kate Grenville

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

— Roxane Gay

The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being on social…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

If you're going to be a writer, you're going to write because you have to. It's not like other arts and not nearly as…

— Ian Sansom

It's something that I know how to do because I taught for a very long time, so I can do it, and I feel…

— Alice Sebold

I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of…

— Ken Liu

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and…

— David Suchet

When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how…

— Marya Hornbacher

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity…

— Mordecai Richler

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. I love all of it, thinking up the…

— Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access. But ultimately,…

— Laura van den Berg