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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

— Patricia Briggs

“I said earlier that we are all poets, though not many of us write poetry; and so are we all novelists, that is, we…

— John Fowles

“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.”

— Franklin P. Adams

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

— Marc Levy

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

— Emily Barton

Novels can be a snapshot of a moment in time, or several moments in time, and as a reader, that's what I really like,…

— Meg Wolitzer

“Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in a different…

— Jessica Soffer

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long…

— Margaret Atwood

“Novels are written—as life is lived—One Day At A Time.”

— Lawrence Block

As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's…

— David Ignatius

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

— Milan Kundera

“The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the…

— Thomas Mullen