Fiction Quote by Alan Cheuse

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

— Harry Crews

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

— Etgar Keret

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

— William S Burroughs

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor

Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see…

— David Foster Wallace

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong…

— Ben Dolnick

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have…

— Ethan Canin