Fiction Writers Quotes

48 Fiction Writers quotes by 45 unique authors

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov
I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the… — Alain de Botton
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
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write… — Garry Trudeau
The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a… — Daniel Levitin
New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being… — Tim LaHaye
There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point. — Peter David
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. — Sheri S. Tepper
Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived the Holocaust. — Josef Skvorecky
I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters,… — Regina Spektor
Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up. — Dan Poynter
There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.' — James Scott Bell
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. — Rudy Rucker
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. — Vernor Vinge
Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right. — Kathy Reichs
I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get… — Dylan Moran
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and… — Phyllis McGinley
Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for… — Terry Brooks
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a… — Kevin J. Anderson
However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we… — Wally Lamb
Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus. — Erma Bombeck
There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore how the minds… — Les Standiford
I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating… — Hope Davis
Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the automobiles.… — James N. Frey
Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers start… — Sloane Crosley

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