Wisdom Quote by Norman Mailer

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties…

— Ralph Ellison

“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.”

— Ella Berthoud

“At the heart of the novelist's craft lies an optimism which thinks that the knowledge we gather from our everyday experience, if given proper…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

— James Van Pelt

“As long as you allow your intellectual force to pour out into the absolute, it moves in eddies, its power is dissipated, it is…

— Jacques Rivière

“I know that I am going to meet a personal variation on reality; a partial view of reality. But I know also that by…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“So much had been invested in craft, in externalization, in looking for something solid out there that would fill the void, create a sense…

— Alan Arkin

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all…

— Joseph Conrad

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“Life was never crafted for perfection — it was carved through failure. But fear not the fall; for it is in rising, again and…

— Gary Tolan aka King Tolan

“The finest SF comes to grips with life's mysteries, with our resentments against our own natures and our limited societies. It does so by…

— George Zebrowski

“Losing what we have can only do us real harm when we feel we can't create it, or something equally valuable or compelling, again,…

— Sean Patrick