Agree Quote by Milan Kundera

“life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction’s purpose,”

— Katie Kitamura

“A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's both terrifying…

— Dean Koontz

“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.”

— Ann Marie Aguilar

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

“I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether;…

— P. G. Wodehouse

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But…

— Ruth Park

“All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers’ existence during the time the fiction was…

— William Gibson

“The writer of fiction is not a scholar but an artist impacted emotionally by characters from life, who then strives to present these in…

— Alaa Al Aswany

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he…

— Bernard DeVoto

“The novelist might be greater possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and…

— William Dean Howells

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies,…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“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