Steven Saylor Inspirational Quotes (5)

I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.

Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s skin, so to speak. That’s why we read novels, and also why we write them - to experience more life, through imagination.

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.