Books Quote by Ray Daley

“You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.”

— Thomas Harris

“You may make a writer or a scholar of him, but you'll not make anything else. You may make up your mind of that.”

— C.S. Lewis

“I am not ultimately interested in writing fiction. I can't make things up. Or rather, I can only make things up about things that…

— Alison Bechdel

“Man, you should write a book.’ ‘I know. You couldn’t make this stuff up, could you?”

— Stephanie Wood

“A novel is a made-up work about made-up people in a made-up place, all of which is very real.”

— Thomas C. Foster

“Everything in my novel is true, except the stuff I made up.”

— L.D.C. Fitzgerald

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

— Debbie Reynolds

“It is not up to the writer to create a masterpiece. That is what readers do.”

— Bart J. Gilbertson

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to…

— Thomas Harris

“He liked to say that what makes literature is “inventing truly from honestly acquired knowledge, so that what you make up is truer than…

— Paul Hendrickson

“Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.”

— Loren Weisman

“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind…

— Flannery O'Connor