Anecdotes Quote by Scott McClanahan

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in…

— Dan Chaon

“Love Fiction for Fiction Lovers”

— Selene Grace Silver

The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.

— Peter Heller

I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

— Joseph O'Neill

“Sometimes, when I read, it's not just fiction while I'm between the pages. It’s real. My heart races when they kiss, and I get…

— Emma Hart

Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

— Sheila Heti

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction only creates friction with the ones you love.

— Ayjee Grogan

I don't think with any book you get used to people falling in love with the story. It's been incredible just to realize your…

— Jennifer Armentrout

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

— Cory Monteith

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has to not…

— Martin Amis