Although Quote by Kate Atkinson

When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't…

— Geraldine Brooks

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Kate Grenville

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

— Wally Lamb

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop…

— Neil Gaiman

“You are a writer—you write one chapter and go on to the next and the next and so forth. You manage the story, you…

— Patrick Timm

It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and…

— John Grogan

I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.

— Pamela Druckerman

Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they…

— Sarah Weinman

My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel that flipping…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction -…

— David Mamet