“The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest. — Kate Grenville Copy Share Image
I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are… — Buddy Ebsen Copy Share Image
When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible! — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors! — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences. — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity… — Tom Robbins 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
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language. — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct,… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall.… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Begin your writing, fiction or article, where the action begins. This action can be internal (e.g., an important insight or personal decision)… — Walt Shiel Copy Share Image
At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The key of writing fiction isn't just to remove something that the reader or listener can easily imagine. It's not a matter… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
“People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A friend of mine urged me to see my pain as an opportunity. And since the same psychic that contacted Dion Fortune… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“Writer's block comes from the feeling that one is doing the wrong thing or doing the right thing badly. Fiction written for… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story. — David Ignatius 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
Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction. — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it. — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
I much prefer writing fiction. History books, for me, are very hard work, very serious. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
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