Comfort Quote by Norman Lock

Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while,…

— Emma Donoghue

Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I…

— Kate Christensen

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of…

— Stephenie Meyer

“A novel works it's magic by putting a reader inside another person's life. The pace is as slow as life. It's as detailed as…

— Barbara Kingsolver

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial…

— Julia Glass

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

— Ray Bradbury

“Fiction does something unique in that it takes us out of our heads and puts us into other people's heads. And I think reading,…

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Leonard Mlodinow

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was…

— V. S. Naipaul

Life can be unsettling. Writers have always gravitated to conflict, unhappiness and disturbing themes. We as readers would get bored pretty quickly if stories…

— Clarence Major

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell