Book Quote by Douglas Preston

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

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

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have…

— Paul Beatty

That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week or what…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

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

When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

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

— Alexander McCall Smith

I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for…

— Joanna Scott

I don't write a lot of fiction.

— John Rzeznik

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

— Michael Morpurgo

When you start writing fiction, you have to learn to invent, and it's very hard at the beginning to stop relying on facts and…

— Fiona Barton

At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of…

— William T. Vollmann