Author Quote by Lorrie Moore

A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from…

— Jane Smiley

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

— Georges Simenon

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

— Brian Boyd

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very…

— Steven Erikson

A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts...

— Pat Conroy

The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.

— Carol Bly

“Even if we never read a second volume of a book, the characters continue to live on and on and on, and their stories…

— Cat Winters

I believe that every character is a setting, a world with moving parts, and on the other hand, every setting is, in fact, a…

— Jason Reynolds

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

— Olivia Munn

The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life;…

— Pascal Bruckner

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting,…

— Anais Nin