“The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life. — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest. — Kate Grenville Copy Share Image
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
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are… — Buddy Ebsen Copy Share Image
When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.” — Pushpa Rana Copy Share Image
You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
“The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction it's a heightened voice. You're trying to cast a spell, which isn't the same thing as trying to… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in… — Jeff Feuerzeig 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
“People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come… — Jonathan Franzen 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
In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
If getting a contract was relatively straightforward, writing fiction was far harder than I could have imagined, and there were moments during… — Saul David Copy Share Image
“Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the… — Eudora Welty 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
“Writer's block comes from the feeling that one is doing the wrong thing or doing the right thing badly. Fiction written for… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to… — Roald Dahl 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
“Please do, however, allow me to deliver one very personal message. It is something that I always keep in mind while I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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