Books Quote by William Lashner

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer…

— Rachel Kushner

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

Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen.…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you…

— Etgar Keret

In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it almost never…

— Scott Simon

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

— Elizabeth George

“The magic in writing is not so much using your imagination as it is allowing the reader to uses theirs. When I write a…

— Carl Henegan

It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.

— Seth Godin

“Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.”

— Desi Puspitasari

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.

— Will Hobbs

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

— Beth Moore

“Reading good fiction is like making the jump from masturbation to sex.”

— Stephen King