Because i can Quote by Bonnie Jo Campbell

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

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

— Siri Hustvedt

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

You can write a whole fiction, and you're talking to people who have gone through that, in real life. But the truth of it…

— Alfonso Cuaron

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

— Stephen King

My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!

— Jake Tapper

Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not…

— Jonathan Raymond

With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.

— Wells Tower

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 writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

I don't write a lot of fiction.

— John Rzeznik

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

— Michael Morpurgo