Books Quote by Melvyn Bragg

“If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination still keeps…

— John Irving

Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months…

— Nicholas Sparks

Anybody who sits down to write, and they think 'thriller,' maybe shouldn't be thinking that way. Maybe we should be thinking 'novel,' maybe 'thriller'…

— David Morrell

I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I…

— Ben Lerner

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing…

— Elizabeth Strout

“Tengo did not know for certain whether he wanted to be a professional novelist, nor was he sure he had the talent to write…

— Haruki Murakami

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once…

— John Hawkes

Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or…

— George R. R. Martin

If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

Wanted to write fiction since I was 11, since I first read 'In Our Time' by Hemingway.

— Peter Heller

“Write non-fiction like fiction, so the reader is constantly turning the page to find out what happens next, and write fiction like non-fiction, so…

— Jeffrey Robinson