Adult Quote by Charles Bock

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…

— Janet Fitch

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

— Michael Morpurgo

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

— Henry Rollins

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

— Alexandra Fuller

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

— Wally Lamb

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.

— Joel Edgerton

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

— Thomas Perry

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

— Taiye Selasi

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard…

— Hooman Majd

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

— Grace Paley

I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

— David Grann