Freedom Quote by Will Self

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.”

— Ella Berthoud

“Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”

— Aljean Harmetz

“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she…

— Sheldon Friedman

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

— Alice Hoffman

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life…

— Henry Miller

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

— Tom Wiseman

“The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a…

— Paul Theroux

“To me reading is an almost sacred activity and the great novel is its high mass. The novel is so deeply powerful as an…

— Gregory Day

The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One…

— Katherine Paterson

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

— James Van Pelt