Community Quote by Rita Mae Brown

As a writer, it's a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant of his…

— Dinaw Mengestu

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone…

— Kevin Smith

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a…

— Jonathan Lethem

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

— Eckhart Tolle

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...

— Alberto Manguel

I think where a writer falls on the realism/non-realism continuum has a lot to do with their sight, as in, 'This is how I…

— Laura van den Berg

A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws…

— Bill Barich

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

“For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work of nonfiction,…

— A.K. Wallace

If your attention is on superfluous aspects that are not part of the story, then you can't be concentrating on the human realities of…

— Miguel Ferrer

Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments.

— Eckhart Tolle

“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.”

— Flannery O'Connor