Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The French philosopher Jacques Derrida likens writing fiction to a software code that operates in the hardware of your mind. Stringing together… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I always say writing fiction isn't something you teach. It's something you do, and only experimentation - i.e. doing it, either badly… — Peter Orner 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
Indeed, 'The Second Plane' is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“For example, instead of saying that it was a rainy night, you can say, “At night she could see from her window… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
“Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious." [ Ten rules for writing fiction , The Guardian, 20 February 2010 (with… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found… — George Saunders 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
“My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and… — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an… — Ray McKinnon 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
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
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 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
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
In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need… — Aravind Adiga 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
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