Confession Quote by Don Roff

Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into my writing,…

— Lauren Beukes

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you…

— Megan McCafferty

People resist and fight against things that are new that they haven't seen before, especially if they make them uncomfortable. But fiction is a…

— Gail Simone

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

— Anonymous

With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.

— Wells Tower

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot…

— Tracey Emin

Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

— Jonathan Franzen

Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private…

— Umberto Eco

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

— Anthony Doerr

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

— Ivana Trump

Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a…

— David Grann