I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I…

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— Nadine Gordimer

“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.”

— Ann Marie Aguilar

I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I…

— Ben Lerner

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing,…

— Kate Atkinson

I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up.…

— Edwidge Danticat

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to…

— Henry David Thoreau

I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my…

— Barack Obama

“It was so easy to disown what you couldn’t recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling”

— Sarah Dessen

Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

— Emily Bronte

It's very difficult for a mother to disown her child even if he/she is wrong.

— Shefali Shah

“You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Own your own story and then disown it. See how that feels.”

— Art Hochberg

If I said to my mum I'd left home, she'd probably disown me, especially as I'm the youngest.

— Naughty Boy

I don't disown feminism, but I don't believe in such labels.

— Tabu

“He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still Which he may adhere to, yet disown, For reasons to himself best…

— Samuel Butler