Another Quote by Laurence Housman

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

— Linn Ullmann

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

— Christine Feehan

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction…

— Justine Larbalestier

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I didn't want to write a pure fantasy novel, though I love those and grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula LeGuin.

— Jeff Giles

I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me…

— David Quammen

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

— Leonard Mlodinow

The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and…

— Jodi Picoult

I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different…

— Jennifer Egan