“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
“Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer?” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“Your wish, my Qu—” I press my finger to his lips. “Let us race.” “You will not win.” Holden grabs my wrist and kisses… — Tricia Copeland Copy Share Image
“Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“Ketal is not hell! It’s the K’tul homeworld. What is the difference?” — Andri E. Elia Copy Share Image
“Whither be the heart of Justice? Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone. Whither be the heart of Justice? Lo, tis fast… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
“Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the… — Linda Yezak Copy Share Image
The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They… — Alan Lightman 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
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
The first time I took a fiction writing class was sophomore year. And I just found myself taking that extremely seriously, in… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
“I was slightly thankful when Mom finally came out and unlocked the car. It was warm and toasty inside and it smelt… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor. — Edgar Rice Burroughs 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
Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“I got the job as a Bingo host and did better than they imagined. Never before had they had an emcee so… — John Bennardo Copy Share Image
“Sometimes i just get bored live in real life, so i will hide my self in to the fiction by writing and… — Vindri Prachmitasari 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
In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“If you love somebody then tell them how you feel dont be scared of their reaction or rejection life is too short.… — Atul Purohit Copy Share Image
“I told you; I am Arianna, the Siren, your Guardian, and how is a Guardian supposed to do her job if she… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of… — Jim Grimsley Copy Share Image
Reading was really my only training in fiction writing. I never took a class or read a book on how to write.… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
“Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway. Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
“I know the next year will be trying, but you must keep faith." His eyes bore into mine, and I fear he… — Tricia Copeland Copy Share Image
“If they are good characters, they have minds of their owns. If they are great characters, they go stomping off into the… — Wendi Kelly Copy Share Image
“I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“The innocence in me will never go fainter, no matter how tough the days get. I know i am going to uphold… — Sneha Gulati Copy Share Image
I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
