Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers…

When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would…

— Bill Vaughan

I arrived at my way of "working" as a way of visually approximating what I feel the tone of fiction to be in prose…

— Chris Ware

I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate…

— Abi Morgan

I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try…

— Peter Ackroyd

My general approach to writing fiction is that you try to have as few conceptual notions as possible and you just respond to the…

— George Saunders

Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.

— Charles Bock

When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want…

— Isabel Allende

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

— Peter Carey

“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

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined…

— Barbara Tuchman

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

— Clive Owen Barry

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.

— William March

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