“ Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. Robert Hughes
“ He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that had been a lifelong metaphor for the power of art, for the empire of his… Fred Kaplan
“ The fiction writer is an observer, first, last, and always, but he cannot be an adequate observer unless he is free from uncertainty about what he sees. Those who have no absolute values cannot let th… Flannery O'Connor
“ Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame wil… Roman Payne
“ As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character. Avijeet Das
“ If Laura was so prolific with poems, and in truth she was, then what was the problem with Megan’s request? Couldn’t Laura, with a little doing, keep stringing together line after line of words and con… L.L. Barkat
“ True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do,or to make a living they must do, it is quite frankly like breathing. Somecan breathe often and fluently, some short breaths, s… Milissa R. Bailey
“ And that is why novels, even when they are about wicked people, can solace us: they suggest a more comprehensible and thus more manageable human race, they give us the illusion of perspicacity and of… E.M. Forster
“ Mostly writing requires massive dedication, a whole lot of time spent alone, way too much sitting, countless hours spent thinking hard, and unending and occasionally painful dedication to forming idea… Susan Reynolds
“ Some stories always remain incomplete, until you do not read them complete with heart <3 Danish Ahmad Afsar Ali
“ I am often told that the model of balance for the novelist should be Dante, who divided his territory up pretty evenly between hell, purgatory, and paradise. There can be no objection to this, but als… Flannery O'Connor
“ Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart. Linda W. Yezak
“ The novel is whatever novelists are doing at a given time. If we‘re not doing the big social novel fifteen years from now, it‘ll probably mean our sensibilities have changed in ways that make such wor… Don DeLillo
“ Michael Palin : "I am sorry to interrupt you there Dennis, but he's crossed it out. Thomas Hardy here on the first day of his new novel has crossed out the only word he has written so far and he is ga… Graham Chapman
“ You do not need to be temperamental or upset to be a novelist. Don’t embrace the tortured artist rhetoric that any life difficulties might serve to benefit and enhance your writing. That’s damaging. C… Bryant A. Loney
“ I was told, and indeed I saw several examples, that neither time nor place was much minded, and that I might hazard being equally careless of chronology and geography; but I piqued myself on having st… Charlotte Turner Smith
