Fiction Quote by Amitava Kumar

“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one." ―Salman Rushdie”

— Jim Denney

By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His…

— Wallace Stegner

“And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to do is…

— Margaret Laurence

I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.…

— Alan Lightman

“A story, whether it be novel, short fiction, screenplay, play or poetry or any form of non-fiction, is like an ecosystem in which everything…

— Andrew Binks

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

— Richard Flanagan

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and…

— John Cheever

He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett…

— William S. Burroughs

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

— Gertrude Atherton

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

— Kathy Acker

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are…

— Jo Nesbo

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that…

— Raymond Queneau