I'm tired of being considered a lesbian writer, tired of being a science-fiction writer, tired of being a thriller writer. I'm a… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“The fiction writer is the ombudsman who argues our humble, dubious case in the halls of eternal record.” — John Updike Copy Share Image
The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer. — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“As a fiction writer I am not always sure where reality ends and non reality begins, when sane thoughts become less than… — Kathryn Mattingly Copy Share Image
And while dollars have little to do with it, the fiction writer should be asking the same question any capable film producer… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
I think what people really want is fiction that in some tiny way makes their life more meaningful and makes the world… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever.… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
For me, the fiction writer's job is to take the small, stupid process of learning to use an iPhone - and suddenly… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity. — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
“A fiction writer is nothing more then the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
“A good fiction writer can write any character or any story that she wants to write. The importance, IMO, is a burning… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
I never had a plan to be a fiction writer. It's something that happened to me. Sometimes I think maybe it was… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view. — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
For me, fiction belongs to my inner being, is something essential which defines me - I am a fiction writer in the… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also,… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“you can’t empathize, if you can’t or aren’t willing to put yourself into someone else’s place with all the compassion and insight… — Joe Mynhardt Copy Share Image
By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
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