“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.” — Tom Wiseman Copy Share Image
I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear. — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer,… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it!… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
“I'm a fiction writer not by choice, but by necessity. It's the only way I can say what I want without having… — Jack Tate Copy Share Image
I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
“According to my mother, I was a fiction writer before I'd written any ficton, by wich she meant not only that I… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I was 12. Our ,teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me,… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“That was when Angel Wells became a fiction writer, whether he knew it or not. That's when he learned how to make… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Witing is essentially interior work, and many writers are interior personalities. Having a job forces you out of the world of your… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
A precondition for being a science fiction writer other than an interest in the future is that, an interest - at least… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Mistakes in a work of fiction by a writer are new discoveries by the reader, that create a new ending for the… — kambiz mostofizadeh Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity. — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
For me, the fiction writer's job is to take the small, stupid process of learning to use an iPhone - and suddenly… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“A fiction writer is nothing more then the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
“A good fiction writer can write any character or any story that she wants to write. The importance, IMO, is a burning… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view. — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
I never had a plan to be a fiction writer. It's something that happened to me. Sometimes I think maybe it was… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
