Writing fiction Quotes · Page 4

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

— Kate Grenville

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

— Ralph Peters

When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.

— Marcia Clark

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they…

— Junot Diaz

Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.

— Jen Lancaster

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

— David Ignatius

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.

— Miriam Toews

When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course -…

— Simon Mawer

Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines…

— Alice Sebold

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue?…

— Paul Beatty

In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and…

— Amitava Kumar

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not…

— Alice Munro

With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an…

— Ray McKinnon

“My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and…

— Ken Scott

[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts…

— William S. Burroughs

“The editor was Harper & Row’s legendary mystery expert, Joan Kahn. He’d sent her a letter asking her opinion after his agent…

— Anne Hillerman

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

“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

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

I have a process that I seem to always, to some degree, as a writer, adhere to, but I certainly have never…

— John Irving

The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me,…

— Nadine Gordimer

“Writing fiction is, in many ways, like a religion. It is a daily practice, a way of life, a set of rituals,…

— Anonymous

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

That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors!

— Michael Connelly

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

— Mario Vargas Llosa

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

— Leigh Newman

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

— Joan Larkin

I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.

— Andrew Lam

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.

— Alain de Botton

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

— Kinky Friedman

We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

— Mary Kay Andrews

“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.”

— Ann Marie Aguilar

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

— Lynne Tillman

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

— Khaled Hosseini

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

— Jake Shears

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

— Anonymous

When you're writing your own fiction, you don't have to ride two horses.

— Elliott Colla

“I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.”

— Pushpa Rana

Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.

— Jhumpa Lahiri