Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
Songwriting is just like any other kind of writing - it's either fiction or nonfiction. You can even get into philosophy and… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The editor was Harper & Row’s legendary mystery expert, Joan Kahn. He’d sent her a letter asking her opinion after his agent… — Anne Hillerman Copy Share Image
If you're writing fiction, you're dealing with characters who, themselves, will have heartfelt sentiments but who, themselves, live in this culture right… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
My general approach to writing fiction is that you try to have as few conceptual notions as possible and you just respond… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction,… — Haruki Murakami 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
Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days… — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity,… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
Whether or not you're writing fiction or you're making sculptures. You're trying to create a space. You're trying to make something where… — Denison Witmer Copy Share Image
“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking:… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course -… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue?… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
“When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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