Good fiction always begins with story and progresses to…

“Good fiction makes the truth believable.”

— Tarrant Smith

“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely…

— Donna Goddard

Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a writer writes…

— Paul Auster

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living…

— Vincent Canby

“Good fiction is not defined by the masses, but by the tentative ear.”

— James D. Maxon

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

— E. L. Doctorow

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

— J. B. Priestley

It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

I just don't think I'm very good at fiction.

— Jon Ronson

A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces…

— Laura Miller

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

“Fiction writing is art. It therefore, has few mathematical or scientific limits to its evolution. The writer must always push forward, experiment, and strive…

— Ron Gavalik

For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.

— Marian Keyes

“Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us and to…

— Holly Lisle

I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know the stories;…

— Tess Gerritsen