Feels Quote by Alice McDermott

When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.

— William Gibson

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have…

— Paul Beatty

I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for…

— Joanna Scott

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

— Anthony Doerr

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just…

— Candace Bushnell

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

— Daphne Gottlieb

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

— Aaron Belz

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

— Toni Morrison

I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and…

— Dan Chaon

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

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