“The last image I registered was Ethan and my hand – linked, bound and unbreakable.” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.” — Stephanie Roberts Copy Share Image
Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
“Writing - the act of one person giving a piece of their soul to another.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Reading is fuel for the brain. Writing is fuel for the spirit...” — Megan S. Johnston Copy Share Image
You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Fine architecture is man’s tribute to the land it has been built on. So are the untouched, pristine lands he preserves for… — Tom Baldwin Copy Share Image
I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted… — Elias Zapple Copy Share Image
“If she was going to write a novel, she felt defeated before she began, because someone might be coming along to pick… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors. — James Thayer Copy Share Image
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
“Personally I like the English style better. It is not quite so brittle, and the people as a rule, just wear clothes… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent,… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
You cannot overestimate the role of intuition in fiction writing. Or the role of accident or randomness. These things are very central.… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“Some books will remain famous but will be considered anonymous works, as for us the epic of Gilgamesh; others author's names will… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The brain of the modern human is no longer capable of understanding reality directly. It used to be that a person lived,… — Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis Copy Share Image
“Inside the room there sat a rocker, which she sat on, and which had rocked her while she sipped the beer, because… — Justin Dobbs Copy Share Image
“Movie. What's my favorite kind of movie?” “Is there a point to this?” “Please, Lucy. What's my favorite movie?” “Horror. Why?” “No… — Kaitlin Scott Copy Share Image
“The viewpoint character in each story is usually someone trapped in a living nightmare, but this doesn't guarantee that we and the… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
“It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” said Ito finally, who had been keeping very quiet up to this point. “Indeed. How much will it… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this is what Henry James meant when he talked about the “irresponsibility” of characters. Characters are irresponsible, art is irresponsible when… — James Wood Copy Share Image
“Death would have to wait a while longer for another soul to feed upon.” — Eli Wilde Copy Share Image
“I could have drowned today. If they hadn’t been screaming my name so loudly and if I hadn’t woken up, I would… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn’t going to stop us from being together.” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“I watched her shadow merge with the darker colours of the deep sea.” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense… It's insanity by definition. — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
