I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I…

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

— Irwin Shaw

Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.

— Jonathan Evison

Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.

— Robert Harris

“One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely.”

— Lev Shestov

“Do writers of fiction tell lies or just tall stories?”

— Clive Owen Barry

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we…

— Martin Amis

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

— Peter Carey

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

— Richard Posner

“Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”

— Aljean Harmetz

A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the…

— Katherine Paterson

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.

— William March

“I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we confronted and evaded reality, how we articulated our experience and turned to language…

— Azar Nafisi

One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does but hides…

— Brian Evenson

Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history.

— Stephen Dobyns

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

— Suzan-Lori Parks