Write Fiction Quotes
56 Write Fiction quotes by 47 unique authors
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Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.
— Julian Barnes
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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
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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
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
— Wally Lamb
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
— Jonathan Lethem
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I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
— Michael Morpurgo
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
— V.S. Naipaul
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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
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Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
— Theodore Sturgeon
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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: