Did Quote by E. L. Doctorow

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

— Anthony Horowitz

There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the…

— Flannery O'Connor

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

— J. Michael Straczynski

In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an early-18th-century person.…

— John Ralston Saul

Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's…

— Joanna Scott

“You can’t even read American fiction to get a sense of how actual life is lived these days. You read American fiction to learn…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex…

— Anthony Burgess

“the chief offense in bad fiction: we sense that characters are being manipulated, forced to do things they would not really do.”

— John Gardner

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

— Carson McCullers

“I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is in my heart: I know it is.”

— William Faulkner

“The only thing that matters, as Faulkner once put it, is the human heart in conflict with itself.”

— Colum McCann

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

— Joyce Carol Oates