Breathe Quote by Alan Lightman

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

— Theodore Sturgeon

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much…

— Alex Garland

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice…

— Jennifer Egan

Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort…

— Chelsea Cain

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

— James Kelman

If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to…

— Douglas Coupland

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

— Monica Johnson

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

“all writers, given adequate technique—technique that communicates—can stir our interest in their special subject matter, since at heart all fiction treats, directly or indirectly,…

— John Gardner

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some…

— Alan Lightman