“a truth does not take too long to tell, only a fiction requires so much thought” — Tami Hoag Copy Share Image
“Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm not a moron, but science fiction to me requires a suspension of disbelief and honest curiosity or fascination in that kind… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
