Books Quote by Michael Koryta

As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.

— Lynne Tillman

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

— Dana Brunetti

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

— Alex Flinn

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

— Charles Baxter

“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.”

— Ella Berthoud

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

“Fiction is a world where only the reader enjoys”

— Mbutoh

“we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell us something…

— Tom Perrotta

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

— Neil Gaiman

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have…

— Paul Beatty