Books Quote by Matthew D. Forgenti

“... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the…

— Umberto Eco

“When we as writers take our fears, beliefs, imaginations, and research and offer them up for the Lord to use, we are changed, and…

— Amy Wallace

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darnedest things in the margins of their books.”

— Tara Bray Smith

“We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived…

— Val Edward Simone

“A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).”

— Albert Camus

“We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.”

— Henry James

“Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.”

— David Benioff

“The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to…

— Richard Denney

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

“I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's…

— Flannery O'Connor

“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.”

— Anne R. Allen

“Great writing requires great doubt and great self-confidence. One without the other inspires mediocrity.”

— Chloe Thurlow