Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. It is… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I have come to see this fear, this sense of my own imperilment by my creations, as not only an inevitable, necessary… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences. — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives. — Sheila Heti 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
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me… — Barbara Hamby 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
“Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly -… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
A friend of mine urged me to see my pain as an opportunity. And since the same psychic that contacted Dion Fortune… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I much prefer writing fiction. History books, for me, are very hard work, very serious. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable. — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last… — Bret Easton Ellis 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
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
The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
