Write Fiction Quotes
56 quotes by 47 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
— Tom Stoppard
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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
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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
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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
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Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood,don't write fiction.
— Mary Gaitskill
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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
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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
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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
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I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
— Taiye Selasi
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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
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For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
— Mary Augusta Ward
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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
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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
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That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.
— Jesmyn Ward
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When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
— Roddy Doyle
Who Wrote These Write Fiction Quotes
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