“Reading is fuel for the brain. Writing is fuel for the spirit...” — Megan S. Johnston Copy Share Image
Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense… It's insanity by definition. — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn’t going to stop us from being together.” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Good fiction can help us to expand our circle of empathy to include people unlike ourselves.- R' Eitan Levy” — Eitan Levy Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict. — James Frey Copy Share Image
I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted… — Elias Zapple Copy Share Image
“If she was going to write a novel, she felt defeated before she began, because someone might be coming along to pick… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
“Uncertain of what he wanted, I turned to meet his eyes. Pupils dilating. Breathing hitched. He looked rough. Intense. Wild. But then… — Kristi Hayes Copy Share Image
“I still maintain that the times get precisely the literature that they deserve, and that if the writing of this period is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yes, Remy, I think I do mind,” Daniel hissed. He didn’t sound like himself. He sounded evil, feral-like. An instant chill fell… — Hope Worthington Copy Share Image
Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“He sent it flying at full speed. It jumped six times as well, sending ripples across the sea. The small splashes of… — Erica Sehyun Song 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
Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent,… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
You cannot overestimate the role of intuition in fiction writing. Or the role of accident or randomness. These things are very central.… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“Some books will remain famous but will be considered anonymous works, as for us the epic of Gilgamesh; others author's names will… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be… — Angelic Artiaga Copy Share Image
“The viewpoint character in each story is usually someone trapped in a living nightmare, but this doesn't guarantee that we and the… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
“The brain of the modern human is no longer capable of understanding reality directly. It used to be that a person lived,… — Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction,… — Samuel Hynes Copy Share Image
“It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” said Ito finally, who had been keeping very quiet up to this point. “Indeed. How much will it… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
“I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.” — Teri Louise Kelly Copy Share Image
“Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing. — Lucy Poate Stebbins Copy Share Image
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“My fiction-writing career owes it start to the bad navigation of an 18th century pirate. For it was” — Paul Kemprecos Copy Share Image
Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other. — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
“Fiction writing is a kind of magic. If I communicate the magic spell . . . it loses its force for me.” — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
“I came to conquer this land and its people, but instead, one of its people conquered me.” — Laura Thalassa Copy Share Image
“Our pendants glowed in unison and I understood that they represented us – Siren and human intertwined for eternity.” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
