Done Quote by Deborah Eisenberg

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

— Rose Wilder Lane

My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say…

— Douglas Coupland

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes…

— Joan Didion

Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you…

— Kameron Hurley

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

— Etgar Keret

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

— Tibor Fischer

There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown…

— David Hewson

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done.…

— Philip Roth

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails in the…

— Lauren Groff