Life Quote by William Dean Howells

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

“Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers.”

— Jaime Buckley

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

“The value of a novel is not limited to its depiction of emotions and people akin to those in our own life; it stretches…

— Alain de Botton

“The art lies in setting the inner life into the most violent motion with the smallest possible expenditure of outer life; for it is…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The whole point is that writing has a pattern and life hasn't. Life is so untidy. Art is so short and life so long.…

— Elizabeth Taylor

“Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.”

— Grace Bridges

“Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I had to…

— Lee Siegel

“Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their own feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters they weave.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“The writer of fiction is not a scholar but an artist impacted emotionally by characters from life, who then strives to present these in…

— Alaa Al Aswany

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

— Angela Young