Best Writing Fiction Sayings

73 Writing Fiction quotes by 66 unique authors

• Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini
• The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived… — Chuck Palahniuk
• I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth." Homer Simpson — Matt Groening
• Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded… — Neil Gaiman
• writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible! — Mario Vargas Llosa
• Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as… — David Foster Wallace
• The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. — Iain Banks
• I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for… — Dawn French
• When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry… — Margaret Atwood
• To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of… — Julia Glass
• We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in… — Sue Monk Kidd
• I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction. — Hallie Ephron
• I like going back and writing fiction. — Julia Sweeney
• I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction. — Elizabeth Moon
• When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately. — John C. Hawkes
• Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes. — Alexander McCall Smith
• Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction. — Francine Prose
• I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think is twice as… — Philippa Gregory
• I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult… — Cheryl Mendelson
• One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know. — Marilynne Robinson
• I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where… — George Stephen

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Who Wrote These Writing Fiction Quotes

66 authors contributed a total of 73 Writing Fiction Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Writing Fiction Quotes by Penelope Lively
• 2 Writing Fiction Quotes by Neil Gaiman
• 2 Writing Fiction Quotes by Hilma Wolitzer
• 2 Writing Fiction Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
• 2 Writing Fiction Quotes by David Foster Wallace
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Umberto Eco
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Tom Robbins
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Thomas Perry
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Sue Monk Kidd
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Stephen L. Carter
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Stephen King
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Siri Hustvedt
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Rose Wilder Lane
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Roald Dahl
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Ralph Peters
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Philippa Gregory
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Peter Straub
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Orhan Pamuk
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Nadine Gordimer
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Matt Groening
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Marilynne Robinson
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Margaret Atwood
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
• 1 Writing Fiction Quote by Laura Hillenbrand