Form Quote by Nicholson Baker

“Writing novels allows you to create your own world.”

— Norman Shabel

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

— Lauren Groff

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

— Leonard Mlodinow

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the…

— Laurie Foos

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

— John Fowles

I've been a writer my whole life.

— Scheana Shay

People who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big movies -…

— Mike White

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

— Anonymous

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

— Errol Morris

The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs…

— Sandra Cisneros

When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers…

— Amish Tripathi