Time Quote by Ward Moore

The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course,…

— Peter Carey

“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.”

— Siri Hustvedt

We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one,…

— Andrew O'Hagan

People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“There is no point in having the idea for a wonderful novel if you have never learned to read and write.”

— Ursula Markham

Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task -…

— Anonymous

“Maybe everyone does have a novel in them, perhaps even a great one. I don't believe it, but for the purposes of this argument,…

— Ann Patchett

“Writing is more about discovery than invention.”

— Diane Setterfield

“Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book.”

— Patti Smith

“I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a…

— Fred Allen

“The book is man's best invention so far.”

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

“What is more useless than the popular novel that has passed its boom!”

— Holbrook Jackson