Quote by Julien Green

“The novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom

“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has experienced that…

— Ivan Klima

“A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's both terrifying…

— Dean Koontz

“And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to do is…

— Margaret Laurence

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the…

— Roman Payne

“The finest SF comes to grips with life's mysteries, with our resentments against our own natures and our limited societies. It does so by…

— George Zebrowski

“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.”

— Ella Berthoud

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world,…

— Anonymous

“I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I…

— Chloe Thurlow