Fiction Quote by Rowan Williams

There are two types of stories: public and private.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation…

— Karl Jaspers

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means…

— Graham Swift

There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of…

— Flannery O'Connor

The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to…

— Samuel R. Delany

The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires…

— Lois Lowry

Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.

— Valerie Miner

The public is a part of my real life.

— Placido Domingo

Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.

— Cynthia Ozick

Writing the novel felt so private to me! I think publishing a novel is quite public and exposing, and what's a little frightening to…

— Garth Greenwell

“The space between the private and the public is the nexus of the personal and the social, if not political. It’s where we meet…

— John Capecci and Timothy Cage

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his…

— Mary Abigail Dodge