Fiction Quote by Dan Poynter Download Open image “Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.” — Dan Poynter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Trust Trusted Writing
Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living. — Rosemary Clement-Moore Copy Share Image
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living. — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material… — Terry Brooks 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
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Every fiction writer writes around the thing they will never say. Thats what fiction writers do — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look… — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver. — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another. — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort… — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians. — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the customs clearance,… — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance. — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter. — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts? — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center. — Dan Poynter 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
