Books Quote by Ben Lerner

I'm aware of narrating certain experiences as they happen or obliterating those experiences with narrative and then those stories - not the experiences themselves…

— Ben Lerner

One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book.

— David Grann

What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets…

— Ben Lerner

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

— Michael Crichton

“Some fictions become fixtures in the real city. Their stories are so powerful that they leap off the page on to the streets, irreversibly…

— Henry Eliot

“There is already fiction in the glance”

— Victor Erice

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once…

— John Hawkes

“That resplendent space created by a piece of fiction can really expand the width of time... Clearly there is a spot somewhere inside our…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it…

— Neil Gaiman

In a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction - and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their personal history…

— Frederick Busch

When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

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