Write Fiction Quotes

56 Write Fiction quotes by 47 unique authors

• Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction. — Julian Barnes
• 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
• I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore. — Don DeLillo
• I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life. — Wally Lamb
• People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we… — Dan Chaon
• I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does take a lot… — Jennifer Egan
• I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write… — Amy Hempel
• I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time,… — Don DeLillo
• 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
• A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth… — Graham Greene
• I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world. — Sloane Crosley
• I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in… — Sloane Crosley
• I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told me… — Jesse Eisenberg
• It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer. — Barbara Kingsolver
• I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me. — Jonathan Lethem
• I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do. — Michael Morpurgo
• Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. — V.S. Naipaul
• I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else… — Will Self
• Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. — Theodore Sturgeon
• A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. — Virginia Woolf

Who Wrote These Write Fiction Quotes

47 authors contributed a total of 56 Write Fiction Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Write Fiction Quotes by Sloane Crosley
• 2 Write Fiction Quotes by Virginia Woolf
• 2 Write Fiction Quotes by Philip Roth
• 2 Write Fiction Quotes by Jennifer Egan
• 2 Write Fiction Quotes by Isabel Allende
• 2 Write Fiction Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
• 2 Write Fiction Quotes by Don DeLillo
• 1 Write Fiction Quote by William T. Vollmann
• 1 Write Fiction Quote by William Gibson
• 1 Write Fiction Quote by Will Self
• 1 Write Fiction Quote by Wally Lamb
• 1 Write Fiction Quote by Wallace Stegner
• 1 Write Fiction Quote by V.S. Naipaul
• 1 Write Fiction Quote by Tom Stoppard
• 1 Write Fiction Quote by Theodore Sturgeon
• 1 Write Fiction Quote by Taiye Selasi
• 1 Write Fiction Quote by Rohinton Mistry
• 1 Write Fiction Quote by Roddy Doyle
• 1 Write Fiction Quote by Paul Theroux
• 1 Write Fiction Quote by Oscar Hijuelos
• 1 Write Fiction Quote by Michael Morpurgo
• 1 Write Fiction Quote by Michael Frayn
• 1 Write Fiction Quote by Michael Connelly
• 1 Write Fiction Quote by Mary Gaitskill
• 1 Write Fiction Quote by Mary Augusta Ward