Attention Quote by Samuel Johnson

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary…

— Raymond Queneau

“It is the importance of this quality of generosity in fiction that requires a measure of childishness in the writer. People who have strong…

— John Gardner

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs

— Mary Higgins Clark

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

— Karen Kingsbury

“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking, "I can…

— Stephen King

“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing…

— Cirilo F. Bautista

“What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the world's eyes…

— Thomas Mann

“A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.”

— Julia Joanne Black

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very…

— Steven Erikson

“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic…

— Ruth Ozeki

“Life scars the writer but he is not without weapons of vengeance. The art of fiction is a prism that he can use to…

— Kerima Polotan