Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other. — Monica Hesse 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
“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
“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
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
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret. — Matthew Arnold 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
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological… — Paul Harding 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
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors. — James Thayer Copy Share Image
It puzzles me when writers say they can't read fiction when they're writing fiction because they don't want to be influenced. I'm… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could… — Erica Sehyun Song 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
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
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
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at… — Alan Lightman 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
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
The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing. — Lucy Poate Stebbins Copy Share Image
You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things. — Anthony Doerr 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
What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“I watched her shadow merge with the darker colours of the deep sea.” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense… It's insanity by definition. — Jo Beverley 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
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict. — James Frey Copy Share Image
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with. — William Faulkner 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
“We share a bond. We do everything together. We have a piece of strong, invisible thread connecting us. It’s indestructible – it… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
