Fiction Writer Quotes
42 Fiction Writer quotes by 33 unique authors
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Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
— John le Carre
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.
— Cinda Williams Chima
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.
— Tim LaHaye
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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
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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
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In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.
— James Scott Bell
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Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.
— Arda Collins
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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
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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
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A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.
— Robert J. Sawyer
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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
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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
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Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
— Rudy Rucker
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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
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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
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I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.
— Ray Bradbury
Who Wrote These Fiction Writer Quotes
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