Challenges Quote by Neil Gaiman

When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world

— Julian Barnes

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

— Philip Gerard

I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing

It is a challenge to write in the real world once you've had the advantage of being able to create your own world.

— Leigh Bardugo

I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.

— Eleanor Catton

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

— John Fowles

The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'

— Mark Haddon

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

— Marcy Dermansky

We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

— Mary Kay Andrews