Fiction Quote by Anonymous

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

— Alan Cheuse

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

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

— Ernest Hemingway

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

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

writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a…

— Edna Ferber

“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or laugh at…

— Michael Marshall

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

— William Faulkner

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and…

— Gloria Steinem

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

— Wally Lamb

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

— Paul Auster

“Good writers may “tell” about almost anything in fiction except the characters’ feelings.”

— John Gardner