Certain Quote by Ben Marcus

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your…

— Chris Abani

I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation…

— Dawn French

When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world

— Julian Barnes

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

— Lorin Stein

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 practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

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 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

I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.

— Kent Haruf

“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

People resist and fight against things that are new that they haven't seen before, especially if they make them uncomfortable. But fiction is a…

— Gail Simone

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

— Don Roff