Book Quote by Meg Wolitzer

You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word…

— Kate Forsyth

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

— Scarlett Thomas

Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have…

— Ethan Canin

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written…

— Edmund White

The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or whomever, are…

— Robert Greene

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.

— Peter Heller

Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about…

— Jodi Picoult

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

— Yann Martel