Fiction Quote by Dale Peck Download Open image “Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.” — Dale Peck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Irrational Writing Writing fiction
Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition. — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is brilliant because you can totally exaggerate everything and not have to worry about legal issues. — Coleen Nolan Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Your life could be taken from you at any moment. Between AIDS and the violence against gay people that was so prevalent back then,… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
Who cares what the state thinks about your relationship? They're giving you tax breaks and this and that - it's just nonsense. You want… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
“You are -" she stopped fanning long enough to push the glasses up her nose - "Sprout Bradford?" I thought it was a little… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
I always hoped that I would settle down with someone. Marriage, I could really give two shits about, as an institution, but it makes… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
I came out after safe sex was invented and I always practiced safe sex. Except for when I lost my virginity. — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
“Children," Mrs. Oakenfeld sighed. "I do not want you to be good to avoid being punished. I do not want you to be good… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad. — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too. — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
“Drift House: Susan's response to Queen Octavia's sarcasm in regards to fading memories..."But we pass our memories on," she insisted. "I mean, from one… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
“People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different? There was… — Dale Peck 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
