Different Quote by Alice Mattison

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is…

— Gillian Cross

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other…

— Paul Kane

If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are…

— Gillian Cross

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

— Rene Russo

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and…

— Helen Fielding

I don't think writing fiction has changed my worldview.

— Donald Ray Pollock

As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found out in…

— George Saunders

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

I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at…

— Lionel Shriver

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

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

— Marcy Dermansky

Fiction always reveals a lot about the person who is writing it. That's the scary thing. Not in a straightforward autobiographical sense. But the…

— Katie Kitamura