Feeling Quote by Barry Unsworth

Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into my writing,…

— Lauren Beukes

my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.

— Marion Dane Bauer

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

I want my fiction to seem real.

— Mary Kay Andrews

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you…

— Megan McCafferty

Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much…

— Edwidge Danticat

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

— Angus Wilson

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls

Most fiction comes from your experience.

— Susan Minot

Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.

— Fatih Ak?n

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

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell