Fiction Writer Quotes

42 Fiction Writer quotes by 33 unique authors

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. — John le Carre
I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I don't think Judaism… — Howard Stern
The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and… — Flannery O'Connor
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. — Flannery O'Connor
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
A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear. — Cinda Williams Chima
Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is the book he… — Sam Lipsyte
The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing is… — Nadine Gordimer
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not… — Harold Brodkey
It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells… — Flannery O'Connor
I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think… — Jennifer Egan
I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer. — Tim LaHaye
I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist… — Caleb Carr
There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction… — Ridley Pearson
In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity. — James Scott Bell
Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer. — Arda Collins
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion… — Theodore Sturgeon
A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic. — Robert J. Sawyer
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and… — Anthony Burgess
I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or… — Ridley Pearson
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail. — Rudy Rucker
The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you… — Tana French
When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They… — Ray Bradbury
I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck. — Ray Bradbury

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