Trust Quote by Mary Robinette Kowal

“Novelists don’t have answers and ones that do I'm not sure you should trust.”

— David Mitchell

“Novelists are a special breed. They cannot genuinely trust anything they have not seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands…

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Norman Shabel

“In every book she’d ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served to harden…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel is fiction.”

— Roxane Gay

“Nobody ever recommended or even desired that I be a novelist - in fact, some tried to stop me. I had the idea to…

— Haruki Murakami

“I did worry at one stage that all my stories seem to revolve around secrets, lies and self-deception, but then I realized that most…

— Jane Lovering

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.”

— George Orwell

“ 'Books had always been my best friends and all I wanted to do was lose myself in them, and better yet if the…

— Fae Sutherland

“Writers are made -- forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities -- over the course of many, many moons.”

— Chuck Wendig

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

“Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the…

— T.J. Mihaila