Asks Quote by Paul Auster

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

— John Fowles

Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they…

— Sarah Weinman

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

— Sylvia Brownrigg

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Lauren Groff

I'm not a writer. As for direction, I don't have the guts to do that. Still you can never say never.

— Akshaye Khanna

I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was…

— Arundhati Roy

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

— James Franco

If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, 'Why do I want to do…

— Dorianne Laux

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

— Philip Gerard

The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'

— Mark Haddon