I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it. — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I think the thing that I lost in myself when I stopped writing fiction and the thing that I rediscovered and started… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times… — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I love the resource of the Internet. I use it all the time. Anything I'm writing - for example, if I'm writing… — Dave Barry 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
“Write in pictures. With your words, let the reader see not letters, but images. Be specific about every detail, but don't describe… — A.A. Patawaran Copy Share Image
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery.… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to… — John Green Copy Share Image
'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
I like rules. I like definitions, categories, and writing advice of all sorts. When I'm writing fiction, there are often a lot… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction it's a heightened voice. You're trying to cast a spell, which isn't the same thing as trying to… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
“A.G. Riddle spent ten years starting and running internet companies before retiring to focus on his true passion: writing fiction. He grew… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
When I am writing political op-eds, I do think carefully about the impact of my words. When I am writing fiction, it's… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident,… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I dropped out of my Ph.D. philosophy program at Northwestern in the summer of 2015, in my mid-20s. I kind of had… — ContraPoints Copy Share Image
Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
There's an expression, "God is in the details," and it applies to nothing more than it does to the writing of fiction.… — Donna Levin Copy Share Image
It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
