Dream Quote by Dan Chaon

All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

— Barry Unsworth

For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of…

— Eudora Welty

Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix.

— Frankie Cosmos

First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel…

— Debbie Macomber

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Narrative nonfiction was not my forte. I always wanted to let my imagination run free, and the facts sometimes got in the way. At…

— Douglas Florian

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will,…

— John Saxon

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true…

— Errol Morris

There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It…

— Harold Ramis

Sometimes it bursts from your imagination fully formed, sometimes you absorb from nonfiction, sometimes you're able to imprint your own autobiographical experiences on a…

— Anthony Marra

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

— Jerry B. Jenkins