Books Quote by Pat Conroy

“How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these? Where are the things that novelists seize…

— Wallace Stegner

“Writing a novel mimics what we bring to our journey of life. God is the great editor who purges the faulty, the awkward, and…

— Denise M. Baran-Unland

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have…

— Iris Murdoch

“And if publishers are too skittish to bite—sell it as goddamn fiction. Make yourself the author and change the names if necessary. Do whatever…

— Joshua V. Scher

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a…

— Don DeLillo

“I want to write a novel that is so good it causes readers to ignore meals, sleep, work, friends and spouses!!”

— R.E. Fisher

“Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages…

— Janae Mitchell

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young