Emma Roberts Quotes

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.

I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my heart to the imagined world and read on.

I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

I read a lot of fiction.

We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read a lot because part of acting is an exploration of literature.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.

When I read 'Room,' I absolutely loved it, and I thought I knew how to make it.

If you're a writer, and you write fiction, that's not all you read.

I get scripts and think, 'There's not enough here to get my teeth stuck into.' That's a result of studying English, where you luxuriate in these big, lush novels.

Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that.

I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.

I like to read fiction.

I believe any fiction writer is inspired by real life.

When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

You learn a lot, writing fiction.