Books Quote by Karl Wiggins

“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the…

— Madelaine Standing

“The greatest and most difficult task of a writer is bridging the gap between reality...and the unimaginable”

— Jason W. Blair

“It is, of course, not only impossible for readers to know the intention of most, if not all, writers, but an author himself may…

— Russell M. Goldfarb

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

— Terry Brooks

“First, there must be talent, much talent. Talent such as Kipling had. Then there must be discipline. The discipline of Flaubert. Then there must…

— Ernest Hemingway

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

— Goldwin Smith

“For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work of nonfiction,…

— A.K. Wallace

“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.”

— Federico Chini

“Writers of literature, if they are real writers, know that their readers are confused about reality and the emotions derived from that reality and…

— Noah Cicero

“He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that…

— Niall Williams

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Reading is a way to escape the real world. Writing is a way to create a new one.”

— Giuseppe Bianco