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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble… — Mark Twain
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. — Robert Penn Warren
One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas… — Roger Zelazny
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction… — George R. R. Martin
Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid,… — John Green
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's… — John Green
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my… — John Green
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see or… — David Foster Wallace
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham… — David Foster Wallace
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a… — David Foster Wallace
Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your… — Anne Enright
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. No matter… — Poul Anderson
A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories. — John Irving
As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty. — Stephen King
Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors embody… — Ursula K. Le Guin
If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look true, and that… — Percy Lubbock
It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can… — Flannery O'Connor
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. — Katherine Paterson
Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer. — Frederic Raphael
Truth is always duller than fiction. — Piers Paul Read
Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world. — Arundhati Roy
What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write. — Neal Stephenson
I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown. — Tom Stoppard

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