“Some times, you write fiction stories. Others, you use fiction to write your story.” — S. Usher Evans Copy Share Image
I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on. — John Banville Copy Share Image
“There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I write non-fiction quicker, and I write it on a computer. Fiction I write longhand, and that helps make it clear that… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The main difficulty is finding an idea that really excites me. We live in an age when miracles are no longer miracles,… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“I lose myself in the fiction I write in the same way I would lose myself as a younger man in the… — Daniel Kemp Copy Share Image
I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don't ever… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of… — Philip J. Klass Copy Share Image
I'm a genre writer - I chose to be one, I ended up one, I still am one, and I'm not writing… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I really need to know where I'm going with fiction to write it in a way that at least I'm happy with.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write has to be political.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
