Able Quote by Margaret Laurence

I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be made. It's…

— Arundhati Roy

Inspiration is a force not to be wrestled with. You can try, but it will slip under the cracks every time.

— Tara Stiles

You can't ever force anything, and you have to deal with what comes to you as it comes.

— Luke Hemsworth

You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and…

— Chuck Jones

Inspiration comes and goes when it pleases. It's independent of our desires, doesn't respond well to force, and refuses to be controlled.

— Tara Stiles

Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that makes the…

— Alexander Chee

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

— Zane Grey

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

— Rita Mae Brown

It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own…

— Jeanette Winterson

The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived…

— Rachel Cusk

I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it…

— Danny Fox