Write Fiction Quotes

56 quotes by 47 authors

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but… — Kate Atkinson
I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if… — Isabel Allende
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart,… — Philip Roth
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at… — Mario Vargas Llosa
To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the… — Aldous Huxley
I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown. — Tom Stoppard
All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details,… — Rohinton Mistry
What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an oak.… — Philip Roth
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up… — Amy Tan
Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood,don't write fiction. — Mary Gaitskill
I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate. — Michael Connelly
I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it… — Curtis Sittenfeld
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. — Dennis Potter
I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart. — Taiye Selasi
There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know… — Isabel Allende
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. — Mary Augusta Ward
I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who met them and… — Michael Frayn
If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when… — Denis Johnson
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal. — Jesmyn Ward
When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did. — Roddy Doyle

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