Fiction Quote by Dave Wolverton

“I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.”

— Teri Louise Kelly

“Society places the writer so far beyond the pale that society does not regard the writer at all.”

— Annie Dillard

“I am not ultimately interested in writing fiction. I can't make things up. Or rather, I can only make things up about things that…

— Alison Bechdel

“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

— Donald Miller

“Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate them with…

— Hal Duncan

“But my writing won’t ever reflect the diversity that literature in general should be capable of. You need writers whose lives are not like…

— John Scalzi

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“all writers, given adequate technique—technique that communicates—can stir our interest in their special subject matter, since at heart all fiction treats, directly or indirectly,…

— John Gardner

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once…

— John Hawkes

“That's the thing about writers -on one hand evrything is sacred to them, but, on the other, nothing really is.”

— Lang Leav

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

— James Van Pelt