Fiction Quote by Catherine Gaskin Download Open image “Fiction is organized gossip.” — Catherine Gaskin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Gossip Organized
If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know. — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances! — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Although I long to get away from the typewriter, if I think I can produce a better opening or a better closing to a… — Catherine Gaskin Copy Share Image
I have a conscience about my work and try to turn out a good piece of craftsmanship. — Catherine Gaskin Copy Share Image
Getting to my typewriter is something I push myself to, but once I am working, I work hard. — Catherine Gaskin Copy Share Image
I think it's so important for a woman, if she's a writer, to look as feminine as possible. — Catherine Gaskin Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
