Only Quote by David Ignatius

I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

— Jess Walter

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting…

— Fred Saberhagen

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

— Danielle Trussoni

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly…

— Stef Penney

I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story... a courtroom drama…

— John Grisham

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe this.…

— Debra Monroe

Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.

— Fatih Ak?n

My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really…

— Tim Cahill

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

— Ben Rhodes