“All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-believe, it nevertheless is coming out of the deepest recesses of myself.” BelieveCharacterFictionNovelRelatedComing OutNeverthelessInventingInner LifeMake BelieveRecess Author:Paul Auster
“Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He liked being at the cutting edge of technology and inventing” WritingLittlesJoyProcessEnjoyTalkingTechnologyNovelAudienceCuttingEdgesEnjoyedNovelistsScreenplaysInventingCutting Edge Book:The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.” PeopleWorldWayWritingImaginationFictionNovelInventingFiction Writing Author:Ayana Mathis
“The action of the child inventing a new game with his playmates; Einstein formulating a theory of relativity; the housewife devising a new sauce for the meat, a young author writing his first novel; all of these are in terms of definition, Creative, and there is no attempt to set them in some order of more or less Creative.” WritingFirstsChildrenActionYoungOrderGamesTermNovelCreativeTheoryDefinitionsMeatInventingRelativitySauceHousewifeTheories Of RelativityDevising Book:On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy