About Quote by Eleanor Catton

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

— Anthony Doerr

The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

— Valerie Plame

One of the great things about fiction is you can use an issue and describe it in human terms.

— Michael Connelly

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

— Wally Lamb

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Rose Wilder Lane

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for…

— Junot Diaz

I think it's possible to be just a fiction writer, and I don't think that it's a luxury. Oftentimes, what fiction does is approach…

— Torrey Peters

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

— James Kelman

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.

— Lauren Groff

Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.

— Gillian Cross