Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
Returning to writing fiction after 13 years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language. — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity… — Tom Robbins 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
I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct,… — Dawn French 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
Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the… — Orhan Pamuk 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
Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a… — John Updike 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
Indeed, 'The Second Plane' is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall.… — Lionel Shriver 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
We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It puzzles me when writers say they can't read fiction when they're writing fiction because they don't want to be influenced. I'm… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything. Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.” — Elizabeth Eulberg Copy Share Image
“Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“Rejection is a challenge. Persistence is patience. Reward is a lifetime in the making. Despite what happens, only death will stop this… — Veronica Purcell 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
I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction,… — Dean Wesley Smith Copy Share Image
“The first thing I check once I’m inside a story is the emotional weather. Is there a storm coming? What’s the temperature,… — Bob Thurber 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
One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
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 find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write… — Kiran Desai 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
[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 Copy Share Image
“My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and… — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
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 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
As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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