Another Quote by Mark Haddon

“I think... the most brilliant thing about being a writer,is that if you don't like the way the world is, you can create your…

— Maegan Cook

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

— John Fowles

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life…

— Henry Miller

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

— Henning Mankell

“I believe half of a writer’s job is to, really, take you to another world and give you a view of things, information about…

— Caleb Carr

“Being a writer is an important job because we bring emotion and imagination into a world filled with endless, inane chatter.”

— Jennifer Probst

“Writing novels allows you to create your own world.”

— Norman Shabel

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

— Richard Bach

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

— Rupert Holmes

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

— Susan Sontag

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put…

— Chris Pavone

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff