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- I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. — Alain de Botton
- Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting… — Deborah Eisenberg
- In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the… — Ben Bova
- Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to… — John Green
- Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want… — David Foster Wallace
- Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language. — Hilma Wolitzer
- Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity,… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
- I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. — Peter Straub
- The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me,… — Nadine Gordimer
- When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life. — Ralph Peters
- It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you… — Flannery O'Connor
- Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened. — Siri Hustvedt