Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction. — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.” — Pushpa Rana Copy Share Image
“I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything. Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.” — Elizabeth Eulberg Copy Share Image
We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It puzzles me when writers say they can't read fiction when they're writing fiction because they don't want to be influenced. I'm… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“Rejection is a challenge. Persistence is patience. Reward is a lifetime in the making. Despite what happens, only death will stop this… — Veronica Purcell Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction,… — Dean Wesley Smith Copy Share Image
It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Tengo did not know for certain whether he wanted to be a professional novelist, nor was he sure he had the talent… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If getting a contract was relatively straightforward, writing fiction was far harder than I could have imagined, and there were moments during… — Saul David Copy Share Image
In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
“The best thing that can happen to me when I'm writing fiction is to lose sight of the fact that I'm writing… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
We all have a tendency to over generalize our individual experiences. After I've published something, I'll meet someone who says, "I'm Haitian,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“In almost all cases, the objective of a trip is paradoxical. You ultimately want to return to the starting point safely. Writing… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I have come to see this fear, this sense of my own imperilment by my creations, as not only an inevitable, necessary… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I’ve said it’s hard. Here’s how hard: everybody I know who wades deep enough into memory’s waters drowns a little. Between chapters… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. It is… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Under fun’s new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don’t want… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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