Books Quote by Ayana Mathis

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

— Phil Klay

The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist…

— Octavia E. Butler

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and…

— Neil Gaiman

To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong…

— Ben Dolnick

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

— Rose Wilder Lane

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

— Anne Michaels

Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from writing about…

— Elif Batuman

We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s…

— Steven Saylor

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

Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are…

— Terry Brooks