Bad Quote by David Grann

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

— Alexandra Fuller

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

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written…

— Edmund White

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

— Elizabeth Moon

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

— Ivana Trump

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

— Ben Rhodes

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments…

— Sloane Crosley

I don't write a lot of fiction.

— John Rzeznik

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to…

— Corey Taylor

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

— David Grann