Fiction Quote by Nick Hornby

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we…

— Thomas Pynchon

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

— Walker Percy

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that, we learn…

— Katherine Paterson

The unknown is very appealing to me. I like to be surprised. I love the idea I might know less at the end of…

— James Spader

Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things…

— Andy Rooney

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

— Ali Smith

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.

— James Thurber

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that…

— Anonymous

People love to be told what they know already.

— P. J. O'Rourke

A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people…

— Drew Houston