Every day Quote by Rick Bass

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will…

— Andrew O'Hagan

“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the imagination's curious…

— Andrew Solomon

Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and…

— Susan Straight

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

— Vladimir Nabokov

In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the length of…

— Lauren Groff

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.

— Gillian Flynn

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

The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of…

— John Dos Passos

I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either…

— Khaled Hosseini

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to…

— Anne Lamott