Academia Quote by Alexander Chee

I think it's possible to be just a fiction writer, and I don't think that it's a luxury. Oftentimes, what fiction does is approach…

— Torrey Peters

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no…

— Theodore Sturgeon

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

— Norman Mailer

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes…

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had…

— James Rollins

I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly…

— Ben Lerner

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

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

— Phil Klay

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

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

— Anthony Doerr

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to…

— Alain de Botton

You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed.

— Anonymous