Bases Quote by Aldous Huxley

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

— Monica Johnson

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and…

— Ayana Mathis

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

— Phil Klay

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

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

It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down…

— Cate Marvin

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

— Alice Mattison

A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to write from…

— Lynn Flewelling

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and…

— Neil Gaiman

I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a…

— Toni Morrison

We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s…

— Steven Saylor