Fiction Quote by Elizabeth Moon Download Open image “I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.” — Elizabeth Moon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Finishing Writing Writing fiction
I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it. — Jake Shears Copy Share Image
I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful. — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side. — David Grann Copy Share Image
Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“My advice is, the next time you see someone you think you need to rescue, walk quickly away on the far side of the… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“I do not think God makes bad things happen just so that people can grow spiritually. Bad parents do that. Bad parents make things… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“Apparently they didn’t realize that people who buy thousands of rounds of ammo are likely to know how to use it. We” — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother? — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image