Fiction Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves,…

— Adrienne Rich

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find…

— Sara Sheridan

What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying…

— Tobias Wolff

But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw…

— Grace Paley

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

— William McIlvanney

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

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

— Sheila Heti

My motto is: write about anything you bloody well like; just make sure you do it effectively. We've all had all the emotions, the…

— Suhayl Saadi

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

— Thomas Steinbeck

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling,…

— Santha Rama Rau