I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try. — Jen Knox Copy Share Image
Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer. — Arda Collins Copy Share Image
Every fiction writer writes around the thing they will never say. Thats what fiction writers do — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher,… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I'm repledging myself to human-scale values. As a fiction writer, the best data comes through the senses and is then processed through… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it.… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and… — Adam Roberts Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer you train yourself to think about situations subjectively. I don't really care for narratives that are just A,… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
“There’s an analogy I came up with once for an interviewer who asked me how much of my material was autobiographical,” Octavia… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“The most difficult speculation for a science fiction writer to undertake is to imagine correctly the *secondary* implications of a new factor.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I dislike that premise implies that a fiction writer is incapable of dreaming up stories that can bring readers to tears, that… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need… — John McNally Copy Share Image
“To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks — Mike Wells Copy Share Image
... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
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