Brilliant Quote by Raymond E. Feist

There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it.

— Lawrence Watt-Evans

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“There is no point in having the idea for a wonderful novel if you have never learned to read and write.”

— Ursula Markham

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

— Leslie Fiedler

If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The…

— Ayn Rand

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

— Wole Soyinka

This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where…

— David Eddings

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great…

— Yann Martel

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

— Lillian Hellman

Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

— Ben Marcus

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

— Anne Rice

It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea…

— Fay Weldon