In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences. — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible! — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction. — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Your passion as an artist is a magnet that draws you at all times, but if you don’t follow, it will suffocate… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
“Begin your writing, fiction or article, where the action begins. This action can be internal (e.g., an important insight or personal decision)… — Walt Shiel Copy Share Image
At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident,… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
When I am writing political op-eds, I do think carefully about the impact of my words. When I am writing fiction, it's… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“A.G. Riddle spent ten years starting and running internet companies before retiring to focus on his true passion: writing fiction. He grew… — A.G. Riddle 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
In college, I'd gone abroad to get away from a campus where I felt I didn't fit in. And I started writing… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
“They know a million tricks, those novelists. Take Doctor Goebbels; that's how he started out, writing fiction. Appeals to the base lusts… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction is, in many ways, like a religion. It is a daily practice, a way of life, a set of rituals,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a process that I seem to always, to some degree, as a writer, adhere to, but I certainly have never… — John Irving Copy Share Image
When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restore some sort of… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I've felt pressure to produce long fiction for as long as I've been writing fiction. There's just an incredible bias in the… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I much prefer writing fiction. History books, for me, are very hard work, very serious. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days… — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
The one thing they didn't tell you at Iowa is how hard it is to make a living writing fiction and poetry. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with. — William Faulkner 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
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
Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters. — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to… — Karen Thompson Walker 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
“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.” — James Van Pelt Copy Share Image
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
