“Hey, we live each day, start each day, as if we had an endless number stretching out ahead of us. We don't,… — Gordon Weaver Copy Share Image
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
My general approach to writing fiction is that you try to have as few conceptual notions as possible and you just respond… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“The French philosopher Jacques Derrida likens writing fiction to a software code that operates in the hardware of your mind. Stringing together… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I always say writing fiction isn't something you teach. It's something you do, and only experimentation - i.e. doing it, either badly… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
If you're writing fiction, you're dealing with characters who, themselves, will have heartfelt sentiments but who, themselves, live in this culture right… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity,… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
I like rules. I like definitions, categories, and writing advice of all sorts. When I'm writing fiction, there are often a lot… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery.… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
I love the resource of the Internet. I use it all the time. Anything I'm writing - for example, if I'm writing… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There's an expression, "God is in the details," and it applies to nothing more than it does to the writing of fiction.… — Donna Levin Copy Share Image
Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the… — George Stephen Copy Share Image
“For example, instead of saying that it was a rainy night, you can say, “At night she could see from her window… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
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