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73 Writing Fiction quotes by 66 unique authors

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on. — Buddy Ebsen
About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published,… — Barry B. Longyear
Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy. — Jennifer Haigh
I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how… — Helen Fielding
Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction. — Jen Lancaster
When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing… — Douglas Preston
I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it. — Thomas Perry
In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward. — Amy Tan
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all… — Neil Gaiman
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of… — Ayelet Waldman
You learn a lot, writing fiction. — Penelope Lively
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college. — Janet Fitch
So much emotion goes into writing fiction. — Stephen L. Carter
I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook' or,… — Kiran Desai
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them. — Karen Thompson Walker
I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write. — Jeff VanderMeer
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people. — Roald Dahl
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections. — Junot Diaz
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all… — Joan Didion
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world.… — Umberto Eco
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the… — Penelope Lively
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. — John Updike
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. — Gore Vidal
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply… — Flannery O'Connor
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint… — Jonathan Franzen

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