Close Quote by Sarah Weinman

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

— Manuel Puig

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

— John Fowles

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Norman Shabel

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own…

— Monica Dickens

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.

— Richard Flanagan

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that…

— Wally Lamb

“The best kind of writing is that in which imagination has free reign in the wilds of your mind.”

— ChristaCarol Jones

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman