Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan…

“How could you hide from a murderer who lives under your skin?”

— Nick Cutter

That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week or what…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

— Ray Bradbury

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

— Robin Williams

If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

— Flannery O'Connor

A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.

— Cinda Williams Chima

What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just…

— T.C. Boyle

If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks

— Mike Wells

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

— Chad Harbach

As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity.

— George Saunders

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

— Tom Rachman

I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the answer." It's…

— Mohsin Hamid

The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always…

— Cate Marvin

The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses,…

— Flannery O'Connor