I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week… — Bonnie Jo Campbell 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
However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think,… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. — Peter Straub 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
Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
My motto is: write about anything you bloody well like; just make sure you do it effectively. We've all had all the… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer you train yourself to think about situations subjectively. I don't really care for narratives that are just A,… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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