Books Quote by Thomas Harris

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after. ...You must…

— Thomas Harris

With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.

— Wells Tower

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

— Debbie Reynolds

You're a writer. Make it up.

— David Benioff

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have…

— Paul Beatty

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

— Ivana Trump

With novels, you're representing things. You're not explaining.

— Emma Healey

Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you…

— Kameron Hurley

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier each time…

— Kate DiCamillo

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

— Iain Banks

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

— Marcy Dermansky