Fiction Writing Quotes

24 quotes by 22 authors

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
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything. — Ivana Trump
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
Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always… — Terry Brooks
People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that… — Lorrie Moore
When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars… — Lily Rabe
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing… — Paul Harding
Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to… — James Rollins
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from… — Amy Waldman
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction… — John Dalton
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic. — Kathy Acker
I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as… — Ben Fountain
I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things. — Janis Ian
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. — Robert Morgan
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus. — Susan Orlean
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate… — Paul Theroux
Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they… — Amy Bloom
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action,… — Garry Disher
We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The instructor brought complex… — Miguel Ferrer
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Who Wrote These Fiction Writing Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 24 Fiction Writing Quotes as follows: