I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction,… — Dean Wesley Smith Copy Share Image
I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
When you start writing fiction, you have to learn to invent, and it's very hard at the beginning to stop relying on… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“In almost all cases, the objective of a trip is paradoxical. You ultimately want to return to the starting point safely. Writing… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation.… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.” — Ann Marie Aguilar Copy Share Image
I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“You can’t apply academic rules to art of any kind. As soon as you begin to have rules, you begin to say,… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language,… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The key of writing fiction isn't just to remove something that the reader or listener can easily imagine. It's not a matter… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.” — James Van Pelt Copy Share Image
“Rejection is a challenge. Persistence is patience. Reward is a lifetime in the making. Despite what happens, only death will stop this… — Veronica Purcell Copy Share Image
When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
