Estimation Quote by Tim LaHaye

Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell

Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

— Richard Flanagan

Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether…

— Gioconda Belli

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

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

— Danielle Trussoni

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing…

— Hallie Ephron

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and…

— Whitley Strieber

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

— Ben Rhodes

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

— George Saunders

Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz