Accounts Quote by Rebecca L. Walkowitz

“Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination,…

— Neil Gaiman

I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“Fiction is a world where only the reader enjoys”

— Mbutoh

The writer studies literature, not the world.

— Annie Dillard

“Maybe the world isn't enough, or maybe the distinction between the world and fiction is not so clear. Fiction is made from the stuff…

— Siri Hustvedt

Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the…

— Orhan Pamuk

“I believe half of a writer’s job is to, really, take you to another world and give you a view of things, information about…

— Caleb Carr

“[Writing is] world making and the peopling of those worlds, complete with time lines and heartache.”

— David Mitchell

“I live in different worlds. One world where I perform my duty as a part of society. My favorite is my world. The writing's…

— Ria Tumimomor

“Writing novels allows you to create your own world.”

— Norman Shabel

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

— George Henry Lewes

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life…

— Henry Miller