Away Quote by Lionel Shriver

It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over.

— Jimenez Lai

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

— Doris Lessing

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps…

— Graham Greene

I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is…

— Julie Berry

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

— Dorothy Parker

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

— Jean Craighead George

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.

— Daniel Handler

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we…

— Martin Amis

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

— Martin Amis

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

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

— Anita Brookner

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.

— Gillian Flynn